Ayokunle Falomo

Autobiomythography of (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Autobiomythography of sifts through Nigerian stories and mythologies, both inherited and invented, to explore the self, family, and nationhood.

In an attempt at decolonization, it is an exploration of what it means to be a subjecta person, yes, but also a literary subjectin the wake and afterlife of colonization. Intimate and personal, it is interested in figuring out how to wrest subjectivityone's notion of selffrom this failed project of modernity.

As the title suggests, the book spans and swirls together autobiography, mythology, biography, history (shared and personal), and geography. Amidst myriad speakers in the collection, there is a prominent speaker who, in search of his self/voice, tries on multiple voicesincluding Frederick Lugard'sand other personas: some closer to who/what he is, whatever that is, and others diametrically opposite.

Tangentially, this is a book about a son's relationship with his father. Poem after poem, the speakers interrogate the perceptions of identity, reality, and ownership, and in the pursuit of Truth they erode the boundaries between fact and fiction to show us the fragility of the lines we draw in service to these abstractions, of the beliefs we hold about them, of the acts we perform in service to them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alice James Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781949944372
• Artikelnr.: 72619874

Autorenporträt

AYOKUNLE FALOMO is Nigerian, American, and the author of Autobiomythography of (Alice James Books, 2024), AFRICANAMERICAN'T (FlowerSong Press, 2022), two self-published collections and African, American (New Delta Review, 2019; selected by Selah Saterstrom as the winner of New Delta Review's 8th annual chapbook contest). A recipient of fellowships from Vermont Studio Center, MacDowell, and the University of Michigan's Helen Zell Writers' Program, where he obtained his MFA in Creative WritingPoetry, his work has been anthologized and widely published.