About the Event
Tsitsi Jaji will present new poems extending her ongoing practice of contemporary praise poetry, taking inspiration from Shona clan poems. Inspired by the kinship relations woven through animal and other environmental totems in Southern Africa, her work refuses the constraints of tradition, and fully embraces the values of mutual recognition, ecological intimacies, and metaphorical plenitude. In a globally interconnected world heritages as diverse as her own American and Zimbabwean roots can be woven in new patterns, to make each idiom a world language, and the imagination our lingua franca.
Tsitsi Jaji will read from her poetry and reflect on her work in a conversation with Nathalie Aghoro (Amerika-Institut, LMU Munich).
Photo: Karolinensaal ©Leonhard Simon
About Tsitsi Jaji
Tendekai Mufunde
Tsitsi Jaji is a poet and a scholar. Her poetry collections include Mother Tongues (Cave Canem/Northwestern Press Prize 2018); Beating the Graves; and Carnaval, a chapbook in the New Generation African Poets series. She is Helen L. Bevington Associate Professor of Modern Poetry at Duke University, and is also the author of Africa in Stereo: Music, Modernism and Pan-African Solidarity.
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Amerikahaus München
Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, München
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