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The face : cartography of the void

Title
The face : cartography of the void / Chris Abani.
Author
Abani, Chris
Publication
  • Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
  • ©2013

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Description
89 pages; 16 cm
Summary
"In The Face: Cartography of the Void, acclaimed Nigerian-born author and poet Chris Abani has given us a profound and gorgeously wrought short memoir that navigates the stories written upon his own face. Beginning with his early childhood immersed in the lgbo culture of West Africa, Abani unfurls a lushly poetic, insightful, and funny narrative that investigates the roles that race, culture, and language play in fashioning our sense of self. As Abani so lovingly puts it, he contemplates 'all the people who have touched my face, slapped it, punched it, kissed it, washed it, shaved it. All of that human contact must leave some trace, dome of the need and anger that motivated that touch. This face is softened by it all. Made supple by all the wonder it beheld, all the kindness, all the generosity of life.' The Face: Cartography of the Void is a gift to be read, re-read, shared, and reasured, froman author at the height of his artistic powers."-Back cover.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies.
  • Biography.
Call Number
ReCAP 18-8753
ISBN
  • 1632060434
  • 9781632060433
OCLC
918284812
Author
Abani, Chris, author.
Title
The face : cartography of the void / Chris Abani.
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
Copyright Date
©2013
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Creator/Contributor Characteristics
Nigerians
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Local Subject
Black author.
Research Call Number
ReCAP 18-8753
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