Zom-fam / Kama La Mackerel.
Zom-fam / Kama La Mackerel.
By
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La Mackerel, Kama, 1984-
Publication Date
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2020
Publication Information
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Montréal, Qué. : Metonymy Press,
Physical Description
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101 p.
Subject Term
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Lesbianism.
Homosexuality.
Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Summary
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In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning "man-woman" or "transgender" in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. Emerging from a creative process in spoken word and live performance, these poems transform the page into a stage where the queer femme body is written and mapped onto the colonial space of the home/island. Interwoven with Kreol, ZOM-FAM showcases a unique lyrical sensibility, a musicality influenced by the both unforgiving and soothing rhythms of the ocean, where the poet enunciates the complexity of their displaced Indo-African roots, "the lineage of silence / that we weave in-between our intimacies."
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781999058845
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 819.1 L16 | Checked In |