The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore : An Epic in Three Cantos Hardback
by Sylvie Kande
Part of the Wesleyan Poetry Series series
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Sylvie Kande's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return.
Kande's language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe.
Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience.
Kande makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2022
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- ISBN:9780819580733
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:176 pages
- Publisher:Wesleyan University Press
- Publication Date:22/03/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780819580733
