Research Catalog

Title

The January children / Safia Elhillo ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.

Author

Elhillo, Safia

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

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Details

Description

xviii, 63 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many of his songs to the asmarani--an Arabic term of endearment for a brown-skinned or dark-skinned person. Elhillo explores Arabness and Africanness and the tensions generated by a hyphenated identity in those two worlds.

Series Statement

African poetry book series

Uniform Title

• Poems. Selections
• African poetry book series.

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Refugees > Poetry
• Sudan > Poetry
• Sudan

Genre/Form

• American poetry – African American women authors.
• Sudanese poetry (English) – Women authors.
• Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

Sc E 17-511

ISBN

• 9780803295988
• 0803295987

LCCN

2016034812

OCLC

958223849

Author

Elhillo, Safia, author.

Title

The January children / Safia Elhillo ; foreword by Kwame Dawes.

Publisher

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

African poetry book series

African poetry book series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Subject

Black author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 17-511