Amnion (Granta Poetry)
家族史、移動、階級、植民地主義を縫い合わせながら、自分という存在の成り立ちを探る詩的な一冊。個人の記憶が、複数の国や言語にまたがる歴史と重なっていく。
作品情報
複数の出自と移動の歴史をたどりながら、自己像の輪郭を掘り起こす。
『Amnion』は、英語の圏内だけでは収まりきらない出自と歴史を、連続する詩のかたちでたどる。言語、記憶、共同体の境界を問う構成が、静かな強度で読み手を引き込む。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Granta Books
- 発売日
- 2026-07-01
- ページ数
- 128ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 13.1 x 1.1 x 19.7 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781783787746
- ISBN-10
- 1783787740
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
An extraordinary debut, book-length poem from a significant young thinker on migratory histories, race and colonialism. What does it mean to be a person of multitudinous countries and heritages? Amnion excavates migratory histories, colonialism and class, moving from England to France, the United States, Spain, Germany, Libya and the Philippines. In this chronicle of a family's history divided by geography and language, Stephanie Sy-Quia explores the reverberations that the actions of one generation can have on the next, through acts of bravery and resistance, great and small. Simultaneously mapping and undoing ideas of the self, everything here is contested. Undefinable in form, combining aspects of fiction, epic poetry and the lyric essay, and merging classical thought and contemporary life to show the joy in living and art, Amnion 's broad intellect and undulating emotional landscape is a testament to the families we are given and those that we choose. A POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATION
Stephanie Sy-Quia was born in 1995 in California and now lives in London. She studied English at Oxford and currently works as a freelance journalist. Her writing has appeared in the FT Weekend , the TLS , the Economist , the Spectator and TANK magazine, and has twice been shortlisted for the FT Bodley Head Essay prize.
レビュー
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In the past I have found Granta collections to have a whiff of the pseud. This though, is an effective analysis of the effects of globalised communities, the legacy of colonialism and cross-cultural identities Also a moving portrayal of one family’s movement through geographical and social boundaries. The collection wears it lyricism lightly but still turns heads.
関連する文学賞
- フォワード詩賞 第31回（2022年） ・Excellence Award