If the question is America-and by extension, who is and what does it mean to be American? -AFRICANAMERICAN’T offers no answers. The CAN’T in the title suggests impossibility and that is precisely what the book is interested in. Even in the so-called land of opportunity, some things remain impossible for its speaker(s). In a way, AFRICANAMERICAN’T is a document of attempted refusals: assimilation, forgetting, and allegiance to any one country. However valid despair might be as a response to the continued failings of his two countries, Ayokunle Falomo traverses the distance between betrayal and love in an attempt to find poetry-and perhaps, something like hope-in all the places it can’t be found.
Author: Ayokunle Falomo
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Flowersong Press
Published: 12/22/2022
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781953447326
Language: English
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