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The Slaughterhouse of Dreams
A collection of Poetry by Fiston Mwanza Mujila
Subgenres:
- Congolese,
- Postcolonial,
- Multimedia
This book is for you if you're into...
- Poetry that fuses Congolese kasala with global lyric traditions
- Multimedia forms blending proverbs, fables, riddles, and music
- Explorations of (post)colonial worlds through rhythmic, high-energy verse
A new poetic form from Fiston Mwanza Mujila, author of novels Tram 83 and The Villain's Dance and poetry collection The River in the Belly.
The Slaughterhouse of Dreams is rooted in a traditional Congolese form of praise poem, the kasala, that ties together proverbs, origin stories, fables, and riddles into a recitation accompanied by music. In Mwanza Mujila's skilled hands, this oral tradition becomes a new multimedia form, set to the page while retaining the remarkable drama, emotion, and celebration of its performed root.
In The Slaughterhouse of Dreams, multiple lyrical traditions create a hybrid world of global spaces and layers of time. With the rhythmic, frenetic energy that unites his poetry, prose, and performances, Fiston Mwanza Mujila reanimates and simultaneously deconstructs ideas of the (post)colonial environment.
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