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Born in a Second Language

ISBN-13: 9781943735921

Author(s): Akosua Afiriyie-Hwedie

Subjects: DCF

Publisher: Scb Wholesale

Publisher Imprint: Button Poetry

Publication Date: 27-07-2021

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£15.99
Born in a Second Language

About the book

Born in a Second Language troubles the spectrum between silence (or the limitations of the mouth) and music. Language is an embodied practice, especially present through our hands. Words, specifically names, are a means of conjuring a certain kind of existence, and defining who one will become. Thus, different languages unlock different worlds, and the names speakers answer to open them up to different becomings. Born in a Second Language is curious about the sonic, imagistic and linear implications on the page of speaking multiple languages when political, historical and cultural weights contend.