A Mutiny of Morning: Reclaiming the Black Body from Heart of Darkness

By:Nikesha Breeze

Published by Daraja Press

Co-publisher:Black Godexx Press, Zand Graphics Ltd

Categories: Africana, Civics & Citizenship, Colonialism, Culture, Decolonisation, Fasihi, Moving Beyond Capitalism - Now!, Poetry, Politics, Racism, Transformation, Ubuntu

Nikesha Breeze has taken pages from Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, taken his words, and forced them to leave his colonized mind. She has made the words her own in poetic form. She illuminates the invisible Black voices inside, a radical, surgical, and unapologetic Black appropriation, at the same time as a careful birthing and spiritual road map. The resulting poems are sizzling purifications, violent restorations of integrity, pain, wound, bewilderment, rage, and, sometimes, luminous generosity.

The violent, scathing white supremacy of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness is traversed page by page and word by word in this brilliant prayer/poem—a work of reclamation, redemption, rescue, and repossession. — Wende Marshall, co-editor Insurrectionary Uprisings: A Reader in Revolutionary Nonviolence and Decolonization

 

ISBN Print: 9781990263354 Publication Date: May 2022

Binding Type: Soft cover. Trim Size: 6in x 9in. Language: English Colour: B&W

Print book available from: In East Africa, contact https://zandgraphics.com