Koleka Putuma Bücher

Eine der interessantesten jungen Stimmen Südafrikas präsentiert hier ihr langerwartetes Debüt: In "Kollektive Amnesie" beschäftigt Koleka Putuma sich mit dem Schwarz- und Frau-Sein und taucht dabei unerschrocken in die Geschichte ihres Landes ein. Ihre Gedichte fordern Gerechtigkeit, pochen auf Sichtbarkeit und bieten Heilung. Putuma erforscht in ihnen Konzepte von Autorität – in akademischer Welt, Religion, Politik und Beziehungen –, um zu fragen, was wir gelernt haben und was wir verlernen müssen. Trauer und Erinnerung, Schmerz und Freude, Sex und Selbstliebe machen "Kollektive Amnesie" zu einer kraftvollen Würdigung und Offenbarung all dessen, was vergessen und ignoriert worden ist – sowohl in der südafrikanischen Gesellschaft als auch in uns selbst.

This volume draws together six contemporary plays by female African writers, offering a rare insight into the work being produced by these practitioners. These plays, which are selected from writers across the continent, together give a rich portrait of identity, politics, culture and society in contemporary Africa. The editors of the volume have also provided biographies and the writers' own artistic statements; production histories; and a critical contextualisation of the theatre from which each woman is writing. This provides a rich context from which these plays can be prescribed for study, both at secondary school and undergraduate level--Provided by publisher.

NO EASTER SUNDAY FOR QUEERS follows the (hate) (crime) (murder) love story of Napo and Mimi. The lovers, through the (spirit) (subconscious), Easter Sunday sermon, return on the anniversary of their (wedding) death (crucifixion) to make the (church) (pastor) (perpetrator) Father (reconcile) reckon with the present and the past and a (sacrifice) crucifixion he must account for. The alter is a cross and the subconscious a courtroom where the dead seek justice for a (an act) sin committed by their perpetrators. The (antagonist) protagonists cannot (any more) tell the past from the present and scripture from the truth. Every year, (through the visitations) on Easter Sunday the (pastor and his) church is made to remember.

A groundbreaking poetry collection for young people from exceptional emerging talent Koleka Putuma