{"product_id":"refractive-africa","title":"Refractive Africa","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e2022 Pulitzer Prize Finalist for Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003eRefractive Africa\u003c\/span\u003e is a set of three poems ruminating on diasporic witness, colonialism, invasion, and political resistance. This 'pas de trois' of poems begins paying homage to Amos Tutuola, innovative Nigerian-Yoruban author, and ends with a speech towards modernist Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection turns around the long middle poem, using the geographical site of the Congo river as a lens for considering the pillaging and dislocation of societies through history, honing-in on the specific colonial and post-colonial histories of the area. He welds these to contemporary instances of ecological damage through mining for tin and cobalt.","brand":"Granta Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42985347678288,"sku":"9781783788309B","price":5.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/refractive-africa","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}