The River in the Belly (ePub)
With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston...
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A moving lyric meditation on the Congo River that explores the identity, chaos, and wonder of the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as race and the detritus of colonialism.
With The River in the Belly, award-winning Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila seeks no less than to reinitiate the Congo River in the imaginary of European languages. Through his invention of the "solitude"-a short poetic form lending itself to searing observation and troubled humor, prone to unexpected tonal shifts and lyrical u-turns-the collection celebrates, caresses, and chastises Central Africa's great river, the world's second largest by discharge volume.
Drawing inspiration from sources as diverse as Soviet history, Congolese popular music, international jazz, and everyday life in European exile, Mwanza Mujila has fashioned a work that can speak to the extraordinary hopes and tragedies of post-independence Democratic Republic of the Congo while also mining the generative yet embattled subject position of the African diasporic writer in Europe longing for home.
Fans of Tram 83 will discover in River the same incandescent, improvisatory verbal energy that so dazzled them in Mwanza Mujila's English-language debut.
J. Bret Maney is a literary critic and translator from the French and Spanish. He is a recipient of several awards, including the 2020 Gulf Coast Translation Prize for his translations of Fiston Mwanza Mujila's poetry and an International Latino Book Award and PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for his translation of Guillermo Cotto-Thorner's novel, Manhattan Tropics (Arte Público, 2019), which he also co-edited. He is Assistant Professor of English at Lehman College, City University of New York.
- Autor: Fiston Mwanza Mujila
- 2021, 152 Seiten, Englisch
- Übersetzer: J. Bret Maney
- Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
- ISBN-10: 1646050681
- ISBN-13: 9781646050680
- Erscheinungsdatum: 24.08.2021
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- Grösse: 3.15 MB
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