{"product_id":"xamissa-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHenk Rossouw teaches at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. His poems have appeared in\u003ci\u003e The Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Massachusetts Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544109355282,"sku":"9780823281107","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9f9c61a8-1723-465e-a056-a02cd123ef5e.jpg?v=1731520922","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/xamissa-9780823281107","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}