A is for Acholi / Otoniya J. Okot Bitek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Okot Bitek, Juliane, 1966- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Poetry.

Black people.

African diaspora--Poetry.

African diaspora.

Acholi (African people)--Poetry.

Acholi (African people).

Imperialism--Poetry.

Imperialism.

Racism--Poetry.

Racism.

Africans--British Columbia--Vancouver--Poetry.

Africans.

Nairobi (Kenya)--Poetry.

Nairobi (Kenya).

Great Britain--Colonies--Africa--Poetry.

Great Britain.

British colonies.

Africa.

British Columbia--Vancouver.

Kenya--Nairobi.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

101 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Hamilton, ON : Buckrider Books, an imprint of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers, [2022]

Summary:

"A Is for Acholi is a sweeping collection exploring diaspora, the marginalization of the Acholi people, the dusty streets of Nairobi and the cold grey of Vancouver. Playfully upending English and scholarly notation Otoniya J. Okot Bitek rearranges the alphabet, hides poems in footnotes and slips stories into superscripts. The poet opens up ways of rethinking history as she rewrites both the 1862 contact of the Acholi people with the British and the racist texts of Joseph Conrad, while also searching for a way to live on lands that are fraught with the legacies of colonization, similar to her ancestral homeland. With writing that is lyric, layered and deeply felt, the poems in A Is for Acholi unfold maps of history, culture and identity, tracing a route to a present where the poet dreams of writing a world without empire."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references (page 101).

ISBN:

9781989496558

1989496555

OCLC:

1323247107