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Elhillo, Safia

Summary: The January Children depicts displacement and longing while also questioning accepted truths about geography, history, nationhood, and home. The poems mythologize family histories until they break open, using them to explore aspects of Sudan's history of colonial occupation, dictatorship, and diaspora. Several of the poems speak to the late Egyptian singer Abdelhalim Hafez, who addressed many...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811 ELH

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