{"product_id":"xamissa-by-henk-rossouw","title":"Rossouw, Henk: Xamissa","description":"\u003cp\u003eFordham University Press (paperback, 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003ci\u003eXamissa\u003c\/i\u003e is a book-length poem that sounds out the city of Cape Town in a joyful elegy for the city of alternate takes. \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003eadapts the mythical name for the springs and streams running from Table Mountain to the sea, under the city itself, since before the colonial Dutch ships came--the X of the title standing in for the multiple ways in the languages of the Cape, past and present, the reader may pronounce the first consonant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of documentary poetics that investigates the cost of whiteness in South Africa, \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003ecode-switches at times into Lontara, the subversive Indonesian script that undercuts the prevalence of Dutch in the colonial archive. Through serial questions around the ethics of its address, \u003ci\u003eXamissa \u003c\/i\u003eprobes the interrelation of language, sociality, and resistance, in its bid to interrogate the archive as a draft of the city's future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31758215053335,"sku":"9780823281107","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/content_b27f1560-970d-4109-8345-bc87d5609a81.jpg?v=1599952491","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/xamissa-by-henk-rossouw","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}