{"product_id":"maafa-paperback","title":"Maafa - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHarmony Holiday\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaafa\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. \u003cem\u003eMaafa\u003c\/em\u003e undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the sight of him in captivity beside her was too much to bear. Now she is on her hero's journey which is filled with efforts to shake the sense of shame and longing and forgetting that haunts her in her pursuit of freedom. The crime chases her into all manners of light and darkness. Through an accumulation of images she exorcises her own haunts, and is healed into complete being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. African \u0026amp; African American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHarmony Holiday \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer, dancer, archivist, and the author of\u003cbr\u003efive collections of poetry. She curates an archive of griot\u003cbr\u003epoetics and a related performance series at the Los Angeles Museum of\u003cbr\u003eContemporary Art. She has received the Motherwell Prize, a Ruth Lilly\u003cbr\u003eFellowship, a NYFA fellowship, a Schomburg Fellowship, a California Book Award, and\u003cbr\u003ea research fellowship from Harvard University's Woodberry Poetry Room.\u003cbr\u003eShe lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 120\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 7.8 x 7.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767921049888,"sku":"9781944380236","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9e8e106f116380e578c7f27fd8dae600.webp?v=1780320557","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/maafa-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}