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Lieferstatus:	i.d.R. innert 7-14 Tagen versandfertig
Veröffentlichung:	August 2019
Genre:	Romane, Erzählungen, Gedichte
ISBN:	9780977962389
EAN-Code:	9780977962389
Verlag:	Owo Foro Adobe
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 216 mm / B 140 mm / D 4 mm
Gewicht:	87 gr
Seiten:	58
Zus. Info:	Paperback
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Inhalt:

Ofrenda para las ancestras is a poetic ritual reconciling the crossroads of identities that compose Edwaujonte's bloodline - African, Indigenous, and European. "what is the price of discovering your roots? is it the $79 cheek swab? plantation tours of the floors your family scrubbed? a walk through hedges fertilized with your DNA?" This offering explores the price of discovering one's heritage as a child of the Afro-Indigenous Diaspora, set against the composite backdrops of genealogy, mixed heritage, gentrification, internalized oppression, systemic racism, and spiritual awakening. The text spans the African diaspora: from West Africa to Brooklyn, Long Island, Virginia, North Carolina, and Barbados. Edwaujonte's poetics unravel colonized language and culture to remind the orphans of enslavement and genocide that the human spirit is unconquerable. It is a journey of healing expressed through prayer, blues poetry, ethnography, resistance, Orisha worship, and ancestral reverence.