{"product_id":"there-where-its-so-bright-tanella-boni-9781496230560","title":"There Where It's So Bright in Me","description":"\u003ci\u003eThere Where It's So Bright in Me\u003c\/i\u003e pries at the complexities of difference--race, religion, gender, nationality--that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella Boni is uniquely positioned to test the distinctions of self, other, and belonging. Two twenty-first-century civil wars have made her West African home country of Côte d'Ivoire unstable. Abroad in the United States, Boni confronts the racialized violence that accompanies the idea of Blackness; in France, a second home since her university days, Boni encounters the nationalism roiling much of Europe as the consequences of (neo)colonialism shift the continent's ethnic and racial profile. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What would it mean for the borders that segregate--for these social, political, cultural, personal, and historicizing forces that enshroud us--to lose their dominion? In a body under constant threat, how does the human spirit stay afloat? Boni's poetry is characterized by a hard-earned buoyancy, given her subject matter. Her empathy, insight, and plainspoken address are crucial contributions to the many difficult contemporary conversations we must engage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tanella Boni\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496230566\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496230560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d","brand":"Tanella Boni","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071514472703,"sku":"9781496230560","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4f719632-c3a3-4e5b-baed-6204950534ee.jpg?v=1685436551","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/there-where-its-so-bright-tanella-boni-9781496230560","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}