If I gather here and shout /
If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical "figures" of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Yoruba |
| Language Notes: | English with one page in Yoruba. |
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New York :
Nightboat Books,
2024.
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| Summary: | If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical "figures" of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning-making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus in the ceremony of survival. |
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| Physical Description: | 79 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9781643622408 1643622404 |