{"product_id":"xamissa-paperback-softback-9780823281107","title":"Xamissa (Paperback \/ softback) 9780823281107","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eXamissa\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eHenk Rossouw (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780823281107\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 September 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e136 pages, 6\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 20.3 x 1 cm, 0.29 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eXamissa\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003eadapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from Table Mountain to the sea, under the city itself, since before the colonial Dutch ships came—the X of the title standing in for the multiple ways in the languages of the Cape, past and present, the reader may pronounce the first consonant.\u003cbr\u003e A work of documentary poetics that investigates the cost of whiteness in South Africa, \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003ecode-switches at times into Lontara, the subversive Indonesian script that undercuts the prevalence of Dutch in the colonial archive. Through serial questions around the ethics of its address, \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the interrelation of language, sociality, and resistance, in its bid to interrogate the archive as a draft of the city's future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eProloog \u003cb\u003e1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rearrival \u003cb\u003e7\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Dream of the Road \u003cb\u003e17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Doppler Shift \u003cb\u003e21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Folding Screen \u003cb\u003e29\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Twin Soldiers \u003cb\u003e31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Prisoner \u003cb\u003e32\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elegy for the Gesture \u003cb\u003e33\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Water Archives \u003cb\u003e35\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e helena   Lena \u003cb\u003e43\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lontara Translation \u003cb\u003e111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSources \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e113\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e115\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e119\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52580330012952,"sku":"9780823281107","price":19.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/xamissa-paperback-softback-9780823281107","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}