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Titolo: Weweni
Condizione: Nuovo
Autore: Margaret Noodin
Formato: Tascabile
EAN: 9780814340387
ISBN: 9780814340387
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Genere: Poetry & Drama
Soggetto: Society & Culture, Social Sciences
Data di pubblicazione: 30/04/2015
Description: Depending on dialect, the Anishinaabemowin word ""weweni"" expresses thanks, exactitude, ease, and sincerity. In addition, the word for ""relatives"" is ""nindenwemaaganag"": those whose ""enewewe,"" or voices, sound familiar. In Weweni, poet Margaret Noodin brings all of these meanings to bear in a unique bilingual collection. Noodin's warm and perceptive poems were written first in the Modern Anishinaabemowin double-vowel orthography and appear translated on facing pages in English.

From planetary tracking to political contrasts, stories of ghosts, and messages of trees, the poems in Weweni use many images to speak to the interconnectedness of relationships, moments of difficulty and joy, and dreams and cautions for the future. As poems move from Anishinaabemowin to English, the challenge of translation offers multiple levels of meaning-English meanings found in Anishinaabe words long as rivers and knotted like nets, English approximations that bend the dominant language in new directions, and sets of signs and ideas unable to move from one language to another. In addition to the individual dialogues played out beween Noodin's poems, the collection as a whole demonstrates a fruitful and respectful dialogue between languages and cultures.

Noodin's poems will be proof to students and speakers of Anishinaabemowin that the language can be a vital space for modern expression and, for those new to the language, a lyric invitation to further exploration. Anyone interested in poetry or linguistics will enjoy this one-of-a-kind volume.
Lingua: inglese
Paese di origine: US
Altezza: 203mm
Lunghezza: 127mm
Peso: 160g
Serie: Made in Michigan Writers Series
Title Format: Paperback
Anno di pubblicazione: 2015

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