Born in a second language
Afiriyie-Hwedie, Akosua2021
Book
Total copies: 1
Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) and music. Language is an embodied practice, especially present through our hands. Words, specifically names, are a means of conjuring a certain kind of existence, and defining who one will become. Thus, different languages unlock different worlds, and the names speakers answer to open them up to different becomings. Born in a Second Language is curious about the sonic, imagistic and linear implications on the page of speaking multiple languages when political, historical and cultural weights contend.
Main title:
Born in a second language / Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie.
Author:
Afiriyie-Hwedie, Akosua, author
Imprint:
Minneapolis : Button Poetry, 2021.
Collation:
48 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:
9781943735921 (pbk)
Dewey class:
821.92821.92 AFI
LC class:
PR9379.9
Language:
English
BRN:
719009