Multitrack Memory: Echo, Recursion, and Survival in Two Poetics.
This essay traces a correspondence across oceans and generations between Keorapetse Kgositsile's exile poetics and Earl Sweatshirt's lo-fi confessionals. Reading their work as a multitrack archive, it proposes sound as epistemology, memory carried in pulse, delay, repetition, and breath when languag...
| Publicado en: | English in Africa Vol. 52; no. 3; pp. 21 - 42 |
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Institute for the Study of English in Africa
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