It is a collection which explores communal grief, and collective trauma. But the collection’s exploration of the communal, does not deny the place of the individual. Agarau represents himself and his anxieties in poems like “A Boy Writes a Poem About Anxiety,” and “Doomsday.”
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Silence is woven in and out of the storyline. Most instrumentally, it is represented by one of the main characters, Wuese, who is a deaf-mute. While women and children are most vulnerable in times of crisis, the character Wuese represents another subset of this demographic: disability.
If you thought that the recent Xenophobic attacks by South Africans against African nationals would…