Weeping Becomes a River
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Weeping Becomes a River
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Narrated by:
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Siphokazi Jonas
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By:
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Siphokazi Jonas
About this listen
Penguin Random House South Africa presents an immersive, poetic and mythical audio journey rooted in traditional South African storytelling.
Weeping Becomes a River, narrated by award-winning author and performer Siphokazi Jonas, weaves seemingly discordant worlds, rooted in her experiences of growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie, attending an English boarding school, and going on annual holidays to a village emaXhoseni during the transition years of South Africa’s democracy.
Migrating between forms, between poetry and intsomi, she navigates the waters of tradition, religion, intergenerational experiences of rural and urban spaces, and the ways in which family dynamics affect the body. She is not only a referee of the raging tensions within her, but she also pieces together a language for pathways of leaving and returning.
Her poems grapple with the past, the present, and possible futures without forgetting that “the body is marked territory from birth, and the scent of it never leaves.”
Recorded by: Creafulence
Sound design: Elvis Sibeko
Mixing and mastering: ES Studios
“Unonkala wadidiyela” sung by: Zimbini
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