{"product_id":"maafa-harmony-holiday-9781944380236","title":"Maafa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 PEN America Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaafa\u003c\/em\u003e is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. \u003cem\u003eMaafa\u003c\/em\u003e undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life. Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the sight of him in captivity beside her was too much to bear. Now she is on her hero's journey which is filled with efforts to shake the sense of shame and longing and forgetting that haunts her in her pursuit of freedom. The crime chases her into all manners of light and darkness. Through an accumulation of images she exorcises her own haunts, and is healed into complete being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoetry. African \u0026amp; African American Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harmony Holiday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 194438023X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781944380236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fence Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 7.80w x 0.39d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/23\/2022","brand":"Harmony Holiday","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43986620449023,"sku":"9781944380236","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_025ad901-4856-4fa4-bfab-115476660020.jpg?v=1683284437","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/maafa-harmony-holiday-9781944380236","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}