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Maafa

Harmony Holiday

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SKU:
9781944380236
UPC:
9781944380236
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Published by:
Fence Books
Pub date:
04/19/2022
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
120
ISBN:
9781944380236
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Maafa is an epic poem about reparations and the female body.
Maafa undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed
her father and been granted eternal life.

Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the
Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is
always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the sight
of him in captivity beside her was too much to bear. Now she is on her hero's
journey which is filled with efforts to shake the sense of shame and longing
and forgetting that haunts her in her pursuit of freedom. The crime chases her
into all manners of light and darkness. Through an accumulation of images she
exorcises her own haunts, and is healed into complete being.