A Stranger's Pose - Softcover

Iduma, Emmanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911115499 ISBN 13: 9781911115496

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press, 2018

Synopsis

*Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2019* A unique blend of travelogue, musings and poetry, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters haunted by the absence of home, estrangement from a lover and family tragedies. The author's recollections and reflections of fragments of his journeys to African cities, from Dakar to Douala, Bamako to Benin, and Khartoum to Casablanca, offer a compelling and very personal meditation on the meaning of home and the generosity of strangers to a lone traveller. Alongside accounts of the author's own travels are other narratives about movement, intimacy, the power of language and translation. Whilst echoing the writings of Anne Michaels and John Berger, this remarkable book charts a path of its own that will redefine travel writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Emmanuel Iduma is editor of Saraba magazine, and a faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (The Mantle, 2016) and co-editor of Gambit: Newer African Writing (The Mantle, 2014). His essays on art and photography have been published widely and he has received the 2018 Creative Capital/The Andy Warhol Foundation Grant in Art Writing. In 2017, he was associate curator of the Nigerian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911115499
• ISBN 13: 9781911115496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216