The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos by Kandé, Sylvie
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos by Kandé, Sylvie

The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos

In Kandé's epic poem, African history collides with the contemporary reality of migrationSylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three...
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The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos by Kandé, Sylvie

The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos

$42.15
The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos by Kandé, Sylvie

The Neverending Quest for the Other Shore: An Epic in Three Cantos

$42.15
Author: Sylvie Kandé
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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In Kandé's epic poem, African history collides with the contemporary reality of migration

Sylvie Kandé's neo-epic in three cantos is a double narrative combining today's tales of African migration to Europe on the one hand, with the legend of Abubakar II on the other: Abubakar, emperor of 14th-Century Mali, sailed West toward the new world, never to return. Kandé's language deftly weaves a dialogue between these two narratives and between the epic traditions of the globe. Dazzling in its scope, the poem swings between epic stylization, griot storytelling, and colloquial banter, capturing an astonishing range of human experience. Kandé makes of the migrant a new hero, a future hero whose destiny has not yet taken shape, whose stories are still waiting to be told in their fullness and grandeur: the neverending quest has only just begun.

Country folk who made themselves belated mariners
their bodies cadence them
to cleave with the oar's tainted tip
the purple mounds of the great salt savannah
which no furrow marks
where no seed takes root
(But to say the sea
earthly words are little suited)
At the point of the dream
they were a myriad
no less and no more
to cross the coral barrier in laughter with its vermilion flowers:
there remain but three barks adrift
full so full to the point of capsizing

Author: Sylvie Kandé
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/22/2022
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9780819580740

About the Author
SYLVIE KANDÉ (New York, NY) is an award-winning poet and scholar. She is the author of three poetic collections published by Gallimard. Gestuaire (poèmes), published in 2016, was short-listed for the Prix Kowalski des Lycéens, and received the Prix Louise Labé in 2017. Having launched the program of Francophone studies at NYU, she now teaches as an Africanist in the SUNY system. ALEXANDER DICKOW (Blacksburg, VA) is a poet, translator, and scholar, and an associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. His books include Trial Balloons and Appetites.
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