If I Gather Here and Shout Punks Rebecca May Johnson

Rebecca May Johnson

dompelt hij de lezer middels stukgeslagen verzen en herbestemde taal onder in de sinistere kant van de moderne surveillancemaatschappij

common and uncommon rhythms

geographies of longing

If I Gather Here and Shout Punks Rebecca May JohnsonFunto Omojola If I Gather Here and Shout summons Yoruba divinatory rituals into a hospital room. Incantatory verses accumulate alongside personal and historical figures of illness and death to illuminate the tensions between legibility and meaning making that emerge when an ill Black body is processed through a Western medical context. With intimate knowledge of how ancestral memory aches and sings in the body, Funto Omojola invokes a lamenting chorus