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Cape Verdean blues / Shauna Barbosa.

Summary:

The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of "Sodade," as it refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one navigates through relationships lived, lost, and imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and sound hold the reader in their grip.

Record details

ISBN: 9780822965213
ISBN: 0822965216
Physical Description: ix, 81 pages ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Let -- Strology Gemini -- Small town & terrifying -- Don't leave your smart phone at home -- Every year trying to get my body right -- Taking over for the '99 and the 2000 -- Strology Cancer -- The genetics of leaving -- Making sense of what we're made for -- To the brothers of Cesária Évora -- Girl -- This won't make sense in English lénsu-marra -- Broke -- How's it goin' down -- Deniz -- I'm not drunk; I have only swallowed a bone! -- Strology Scorpio -- When I say I want a baby, you say you miss me that much too -- This won't make sense in English gudjadu