Chronology

Description:

Taking as its starting point an ultimately failed attempt to translate a Sesotho short story into English, CHRONOLOGY explores the spaces language occupies in relationships, colonial history, and our postcolonial past. It is a collage of images and documents, folding on words-that-follow-no-chronology, unveiling layers of meaning of queering love, friendship, death, and power. Traveling from Cape Town to the Schomburg Center in New York, Zahra Patterson's CHRONOLOGY reveals and revels in fragments of the past-personal and the present-political.

subjects: LGBTQ biography and memoir,  Lambda Literary Awards,  Lambda Literary Award Winner,  LGBTQ history,  Sotho literature,  Postcolonialism,  Fiction,  History and criticism,  Sotho language,  Study and teaching,  Creative nonfiction,  Specimens