{"product_id":"there-where-its-so-bright-in-me-9781496230560","title":"There Where It's So Bright in Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tanella Boni\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: African\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere Where It's So Bright in Me\u003c\/i\u003e pries at the complexities of difference--race, religion, gender, nationality--that shape twenty-first-century geopolitical conditions. With work spanning more than thirty-five years and as one of the most prominent figures in contemporary African literature, Tanella Boni is uniquely positioned to test the distinctions of self, other, and belonging. Two twenty-first-century civil wars have made her West African home country of Côte d'Ivoire unstable. Abroad in the United States, Boni confronts the racialized violence that accompanies the idea of Blackness; in France, a second home since her university days, Boni encounters the nationalism roiling much of Europe as the consequences of (neo)colonialism shift the continent's ethnic and racial profile. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What would it mean for the borders that segregate--for these social, political, cultural, personal, and historicizing forces that enshroud us--to lose their dominion? In a body under constant threat, how does the human spirit stay afloat? Boni's poetry is characterized by a hard-earned buoyancy, given her subject matter. Her empathy, insight, and plainspoken address are crucial contributions to the many difficult contemporary conversations we must engage.","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45136115957911,"sku":"9781496230560","price":1246.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781496230560.webp?v=1767909032","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/there-where-its-so-bright-in-me-9781496230560","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}