The Body Family Wabuke Hope
The Body Family Wabuke Hope This imagistic and lyrical collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape.…
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The Body Family Wabuke Hope
This imagistic and lyrical collection tells the story of a family's journey to flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist American landscape. In experimental forms and language both visceral and revelatory, Wabuke seamlessly weaves together a narrative of a Black girl coming of age in America set against a backdrop of gendered and racial Wabuke digs deeply into a personal and ancestral history to bring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be in a Black female body navigating the space of the Black diaspora haunted by both British colonization and American enslavement.