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100 Days: Robert Kroetsch Series

Autor Juliane Okot Bitek Cuvânt înainte de Cecily Nicholson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 ian 2016
100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not. For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem--each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her own family's experience of displacement under the regime of Idi Amin, pulling in fragments of the poetic traditions she encounters along the way: the Ugandan Acholi oral tradition of her father--the poet Okot p'Bitek; Anglican hymns; the rhythms and sounds of the African American Spiritual tradition; and the beat of spoken word and hip-hop. 100 Days is a collection of poetry that will stop you in your tracks. It was the earth that betrayed us first it was the earth that held onto its beauty compelling us to return it was the breezes that were there & then not there it was the sun that rose & fell rose & fell as if there was nothing different as if nothing changed
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772121216
ISBN-10: 1772121215
Pagini: 120
Dimensiuni: 133 x 228 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press (CA)
Seria Robert Kroetsch Series


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"Biteks ability to connect with the beauty and pain of human suffering seems supernatural, this ability to give voice to those who seem to have no voices. Bitek wrote this book with her blood and it shows.... Bitek is a gifted seer, she sees tomorrow with a sweet but earthy, guttural voice, voice of the masquerade.... [Bitek] takes the reader to places in the heart that the writer never intended or imagined. That is powerful, how she makes 100 Days a deeply personal journey to each reader." Ikhide R. Ikheloa, Reading and Writing... Loudly, February 28, 2016
Biteks poems are fierce, directly straightforward and unrelenting, composing her poems in an unadorned manner that increase in tension through the accumulation....Part of what makes the collection so engaging is in the way she focuses on intimate spaces and details, refusing to utilize the form for a simple re-telling of history (which, frustratingly, so many poets tend to do) but engaging the smaller moments. The witness here is personal and deeply felt, even when she writes on large abstracts, proclaiming in broad gestures, exploring through the lyric a human tragedy so brutal and extensive that it becomes unfathomable." rob mclennan, March 21, 2016 [Full post at http://robmclennan.blogspot.ca/2016/03/juliane-okot-bitek-100-days.html]
"[H]ow could an event so terrible birth a myriad of powerful words so beautiful in their execution... 100 Days is a deserving tribute to a time when humanity forgot what it meant to be human. Reading the poetry collection is a humbling experience." Sydney Mugerwa, Writivism, August 22, 2016
"The 'Hundred Days' from April to July 1994 witnessed one of the great genocides of the twentieth century and all while the world looked on and did nothing..... The poetry of Juliane Okot Bitek takes you through its villages and churches and lost innocence, relationships where time was measured out in machete strokes and words that made light of indifference and nothing to tie it to but days and the chattering of birds and bayonet sticks and the awful brutality of it all. There are no epiphanies here, no wise men to make sense of it, no Christian sacrifice or saviours, only the memories and a poet who wrote them out for one hundred days lest we forget." Full post at http://thetarapoetryblog.blogspot.ca/2016/06/100-days-juliane-okot-bitek.html
"The poems... engage traumatised personal memory, suspect the objectivity of official discourse and explore the complications involved in forging a new future. This collection, therefore, does not only add to the ever-growing library of contemporary African poetry, but it does so in ways that will further the postcolonial conversations around nationhood, security and interethnic conflicts as they cross paths with ideas of autochthony, place, displacement and ecological interests in twenty-first century Africa." Douglas E. Kaz, Transnational Literature, November 2016
"Biteks absolutely-must-read 100 Days, [is] an astonishing debut poetry collection.... Pieces are stark and plangent with simple concrete imagery and sensory detail.... The book furthers the sense of relentlessness never-ending, one day as horror-filled as the one before or the next. The University of Alberta Press has produced a tall, beautiful book.... While specific, the books range is far-reaching." Crystal Hurdle, Canadian Literature, Spring/Summer 2016
"Juliane Okot Bitek is a memory keeper, and the memories she wishes to preserve in her majestic collection of poetry, 100 Days, are of the collapse of the imagination that was the 1994 Rwandan genocide.... What makes this collection such a pleasure to read is that its laced with moments of such grace that you have to pause and re-read the lines again in order to reflect upon each phrase.... 100 Days is a masterpiece of uncommon splendour and Juliane Okot Bitek is a virtuoso performing at the height of her powers." Diriye Osman, Huffington Post, October 3, 2017
'"In 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide..." [http://whatsonafrica.org/woa-25-top-african-literature-releases-2016/?platform=hootsuite]

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