MAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. MAAFA undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity. Maafa has killed her father and been granted eternal life.
Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Voelker Award for Poetry Collection
Maafa is Swahili for catastrophe or holocaust, and echoes the Hebrew word Shoah. Without a word for a traumatic event, its erasure is always in progress. Maafa killed her father in the barracoons because the sight of him in captivity beside her was too much to bear. Now she is on her hero's journey which is filled with efforts to shake the sense of shame and longing and forgetting that haunts her in her pursuit of freedom.
The crime chases her into all manners of light and darkness. Through an accumulation of images she exorcises her own haunts, and is healed into complete being.
| ISBN: | 9781068644696 |
| Publication date: | 24th April 2025 |
| Author: | Harmony Holiday |
| Publisher: | the87press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 134 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards) Slavery and abolition of slavery Poetry by individual poets Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction Ancient Sagas and epics Photography and photographs |
MAAFA is an epic poem about reparations and the female body. MAAFA undoes the erasure of trauma and of black femininity.
MAAFA features in the following genres: Modern and contemporary poetry (c 1900 onwards), Slavery and abolition of slavery, Poetry by individual poets, Afrofuturism / Black Speculative fiction, Ancient Sagas and epics, Photography and photographs
Paperback. £13.49, down from the £14.99 cover price. In Stock.
MAAFA was written by Harmony Holiday and published by the87press
MAAFA has 134 pages
£13.49, reduced from £14.99. In Stock.