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Testimony - Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Paperback)
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Testimony - Found Poems from the Special Court for Sierra Leone (Paperback)
Series: The Griot Project Book Series
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Loot Price R560
Discovery Miles 5 600
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IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award™ gold winner, poetry category Sierra
Leone’s devastating civil war barely caught the attention of
Western media, but it raged on for over a decade, bringing misery
to millions of people in West Africa from 1991 to 2002. The
atrocities committed in this war and the accounts of its survivors
were duly recorded by international organizations, but they run the
risk of being consigned to dusty historical archives.
Derived from public testimonies at a UN-backed war crimes
tribunal in Freetown, this remarkable poetry collection aims to
breathe new life into the records of Sierra Leone’s civil war,
delicately extracting heartbreaking human stories from the morass
of legal jargon. By rendering selected trial transcripts in poetic
form, Shanee Stepakoff finds a novel way to communicate not only
the suffering of Sierra Leone’s people, but also their courage,
dignity, and resilience. Her use of innovative literary techniques
helps to ensure that the voices of survivors are not forgotten, but
rather heard across the world. This volume also
includes an introduction that explores how the genre of “found
poetry” can serve as a uniquely powerful means through which
writers may bear witness to atrocity. This book’s unforgettable
excavation and shaping of survivor testimonies opens new
possibilities for speaking about the unspeakable.
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