The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.

Author: Ladan Osman
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 04/01/2015
Series: African Poetry Book
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.37lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9780803266865
Language: English