Merrie Afrika Author:Adam Schwartzman Afrika! is an imaginary space, a 'k' and an exclamation mark away from the — processes, histories and conflicts that this, Adam Schwartzman's second — collection, takes for its subject. It is a space that is at once estranging — and, with its wily appropriations, home ground for the citizen of the — English language. Above all, in projecting ... more »'the great out-there' into one
fictive universe, Afrika! eschews personality and vigorously re-affirms
community of descent, inheritance and association -- as the source of