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The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony

Sillerman First Book Prize Winner, 2014

Ladan Osman

University of Nebraska Press, 2015 | Paperback | ISBN: 9780803266865

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Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony asks: Whose testimony is valid? Whose testimony is worth recording? Osman’s speakers, who are almost always women, assert and reassert in an attempt to establish authority, often through persistent questioning. Specters of race, displacement, and colonialism are often present in her work, providing momentum for speakers to reach beyond their primary, apparent dimensions and better communicate. The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is about love and longing, divorce, distilled desire, and all the ways we injure ourselves and one another.

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Sillerman Prize for African Poetry

Other Books In This Series:

The Rinehart Frames
The Careless Seamstress
Exodus
Madman at Kilifi
The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony
Stray
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