Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time. In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, one's body, music, mother, mother tongue etc. Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Button Poetry
Published: 07/06/2021
ISBN: 9781943735921
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d