Born in a Second Language

By Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie

Book Overview

2019 Button Poetry Prize Winner

Born in a Second Language investigates how translation shapes and alters both language and identity as speakers travel through space and time.

In this book, languages are a means of conjuring an existence, of full expression and of defining who one becomes. Home exists on a spectrum: Botswana, Zambia, Ghana, one's body, music, mother, mother tongue etc.

Akosua Zimba Afiriyie-Hwedie's book is an exploration of African and female identity, navigating what it means to be in-between identities, languages and homes and how those in-between spaces brush up against each other, and are in themselves, a home too.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1943735921
• ISBN13: 9781943735921
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Button Poetry
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.4"