{"product_id":"xamissa-henk-rossouw-9780823281107","title":"Xamissa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Henk Rossouw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823281108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823281107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/04\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 7.90w x 0.50d","brand":"Henk Rossouw","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947363205375,"sku":"9780823281107","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5aa33486-63b2-465a-8a22-0b5ca91d2c33.jpg?v=1681518277","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/xamissa-henk-rossouw-9780823281107","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}