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Subject(s)

• Patterson, Zahra [Browse]
• Sotho literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Sotho language—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Postcolonialism—South Africa [Browse]
• Creative nonfiction—Specimens [Browse]

Publisher

Ugly Duckling Presse [Browse]

Binder

Thomson-Shore, Inc [Browse]

Printer

• Thomson-Shore, Inc [Browse]
• Prestige Printing (Brooklyn, NY) [Browse]

Series

• Dossier (Ugly Duckling Presse) [More in this series]
• Dossier Series

Biographical/​Historical note

"Zahra Patterson is a writer and educator. Her short fiction has appeared in Kalyani Magazine and The Felt, and a reading of her play, Sappho's Last Supper, was staged at WOW Café Theatre. She learned postcolonial theory in the bookshops of Nairobi and the bars of Cape Town and has an MFA in Writing from Pratt Institute."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 26).

Summary note

• Creative or literary nonfiction.
• "Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, Chronology explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and the postcolonial present. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling from Cape Town to the Schomburg Center in New York, Zahra Patterson's Chronology reveals and revels in fragments of the past-personal and the present-political."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 26).

Notes

"Cover design and typesetting by chuck kuan and goodutopian. Typeset in Times, Times Ten, Helvetica Neue, and Egyptienne. Printed and bound at Thomson-Shore. Covers printed letterpress at Ugly Duckling Presse. Inserts printed offset at Prestige Printing."--Page facing title page.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Language note

Chiefly in English; some passages and words in Sesotho.

Contents

• maqakonako
• repolla
• mopuoa
• tlhacho-nko
• kh'onaisa
• khetheli
• Attachments
• Appendix 1
• Notes
• Works cited.

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ISBN

• 9781946433022
• 1946433020

OCLC

1059471836

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