A Stranger's Pose - Softcover

Iduma, Emmanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1911115499 ISBN 13: 9781911115496

Publisher: Cassava Republic Press, 2018

Synopsis

Through stories remembered and imagined, and images by acclaimed photographers, A Stranger's Pose draws the reader into a world of encounters in more than a dozen African towns. Iduma blends memoir, travelogue and storytelling in these fragments of a traveller’s journey across several African cities. Inspired by the author’s travels with photographers between 2011 and 2015, the author's own accounts are expanded to include other narratives about movement, estrangement, and intimacy. These include: an arrest in a market in N’djamena, being punished by a Gendarmes officer on a Cameroonian highway and meeting the famed photographer Malick Sidibe in Bamako.

About this title

About the Author:

Emmanuel Iduma is the author of The Sound of Things to Come (first published as Farad in Nigeria). He co-edited Gambit: Newer African Writing. His essays on art and photography have been published widely. He is editor of Saraba Magazine, and a faculty member of the MFA Art Writing program at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

Review:

“Dream of a perfect book, a ballad with all the lyrics remembered. The sleeper wakes from dreams. That book is in your hands.” - Teju Cole

About this edition

• Publisher: Cassava Republic Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1911115499
• ISBN 13: 9781911115496
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216