The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony
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Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages : 106
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ISBN-10 : 9780803278592
ISBN-13 : 0803278594
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony by : Ladan Osman

Download or read book The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony written by Ladan Osman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.


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