ZOM-FAM

La Mackerel, Kama. ZOM-FAM. Montréal, Qc: Metonymy Press, 2020.

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Abstract (English)

"In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude.

Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being." -- Publisher's website.

Types:	Poetry
All Contributors:	La Mackerel, Kama (Author)
Dossier:	410 - LA MACKEREL, KAMA
Collation:	101 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:	9781999058845
Language of Publication:	English
Publishers:	Montréal, Qc: Metonymy Press
Artists:	La Mackerel, Kama
Keywords:	POETRY; RESISTANCE; COLONIALISM; MIGRATION; RACE; GENDER; STORYTELLING; FAMILY; QUEER IDENTITY; TRANSGENDER
Copyright Statement:	Metonymy Press; Kama La Mackerel; Text licensed under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0.
Notes:	Includes biographical notes.
Deposited by:	Collections
Date Deposited:	21 Sep 2020 18:59
Last Modified:	05 Oct 2020 20:28
URI:	http://e-artexte.ca/id/eprint/32204

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