Obligations to the Wounded
- Auteur: Mubanga Kalimamukwento (Zambia)
- Soort boek: verhalen uit Zambia
- Taal; Engels
- Uitgever: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Verschijnt: 7 oktober 2025
- Omvang: 200 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs: $ 16,00
- Winner Minnesota Book Awards of 2025
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Mubanga Kalimamukwento Obligations to the Wounded review en recensie
- “Obligations to the Wounded is a marvel of a collection. Kalimamukwento joins the likes of Deesha Philyaw, Edwidge Danticat and others whose short stories signaled breaking boundaries of the form and creation of space for a wide range of Black women’s experiences committed to making noises louder, sights sharper, and feelings linger with us.” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- “The stories in Obligations to the Wounded have a universal appeal. Kalimamukwento’s characters face daunting odds while trying to do the right thing, in a way that feels so familiar, so compelling. Everyone can use a little help, human or divine. We feel that obligation, reading these stories.” (The Hopkins Review)
Flaptekst boek van Mubanga Kalimamukwento met verhalen uit Zambia
In formally adventurous stories rooted in Zambian literary tradition, Obligations to the Woundedexplores the expectations and burdens of womanhood in Zambia and for Zambian women living abroad. The collection converses with global social problems through the depiction of games, social media feuds, letters, and folklore to illustrate how girls and women manage religious expectation, migration, loss of language, death, intimate partner violence, and racial discrimination. Although the women and girls inhabiting these pages are separated geographically and by life stage, their shared burdens, culture, and homeland inextricably link them together in struggle and triumph.
Mubanga Kalimamukwento is born in 1988 in Zambia. She is a Zambian attorney and writer. She is the winner of the 2022 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Contest, the 2019 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award, and the 2019 Kalemba Short Story Prize. Her first novel, The Mourning Bird, was listed among the top fifteen debut books of 2019 by Brittle Paper. When she’s not writing, Mubanga serves as fiction editor for Doek! and as mentor at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.When she’s not writing, Mubanga serves as fiction editor for Doek! and as mentor at the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop.