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The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release: April 01, 2015

ISBN: 0803266863

ISBN 13: 9780803266865

The Kitchen-Dweller's Testimony

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 108

Format: Paperback

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Release: April 01, 2015

ISBN: 0803266863

ISBN 13: 9780803266865

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