1.0Éditions Métonymiehttps://metonymypress.com/frahahttps://metonymypress.com/fr/author/fortnfug/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="RD0OCUKy3J"><a href="https://metonymypress.com/fr/zom-fam-press-kit/">ZOM-FAM Press Kit</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://metonymypress.com/fr/zom-fam-press-kit/embed/#?secret=RD0OCUKy3J" width="600" height="338" title="« ZOM-FAM Press Kit » — Metonymy Press" data-secret="RD0OCUKy3J" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! 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They have exhibited and performed their work internationally and their writing in English, French, and Kreol has appeared in publications both online and in print. They have lived in far-flung places such as Pune, India and Peterborough, Ontario. ZOM-FAM is their first book. Kama’s work has been published in the Lambda Literary Award–winning anthology Glitter & Grit: Queer Performance from the Heels on Wheels Femme Galaxy (2015) and We Mark Your Memory: writings from descendants of indenture (2018). Their translation of Kai Cheng Thom’s From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea was published in French by Éditions Dents de Lion in spring 2019 and their co-translation of Vivek Shraya’s I’m Afraid of Men was published in French by éditions du Remue-Ménage in winter 2020. Find them on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Goodreads. About the Book ZOM-FAM emerges from a creative process in spoken word and live performance. The book’s sister theatre performance by the same name was originally scheduled at the MAI in Montreal last April and is now set for the fall instead. In their debut poetry collection, Kama La Mackerel mythologizes a queer/trans narrative of and for their home island, Mauritius. Composed of expansive lyric poems, ZOM-FAM (meaning “man-woman” or “transgender” in Mauritian Kreol) is a voyage into the coming of age of a gender-creative child growing up in the 80s and 90s on the plantation island, as they seek vocabularies for loving and honouring their queer/trans self amidst the legacy of colonial silences. Multiply voiced and imbued with complex storytelling, ZOM-FAM showcases a fluid narrative that summons ancestral voices, femme tongues, broken colonial languages, and a tender queer subjectivity, all of which grapple with the legacy of plantation servitude. Striking, vivid, tender, intimate, and political, ZOM-FAM is a beautifully wrought journey that articulates a contemporary decolonial poetics and offers a roadmap for colonized and displaced queer and trans voices to (re)imagine themselves into being. Advance Praise In ZOM-FAM, Kama La Mackerel spins wondrous, powerful stories into a poetry that fills. There is so much pleasure in these pages, and much contemplation too … about the things that sometimes make us feel in flux: gender, race, colonialism, kinship. A feat in artistry, their poetic touch here is both light and knowing. This work will sing in my body and imagination for a long time. Probably forever. — Jenny Heijun Wills, author of Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. A Memoir Kama La Mackerel’s ZOM-FAM is a historic and important book— and a triumph. ZOM-FAM reminded me of things I needed to remember, and taught me things I needed to know. La Mackerel’s re-memory of indentured femme travels across the kala pani to make a home brick by brick, their invocations and re-imaginings of divine Mauritian femme intimacies, secrets, mysteries, their recounting of colonial scars and their telling of the alchemy of their reject are crucially and beautifully told. La Mackerel writes with the whisper and shout of a genius storyteller, words that you won’t soon forget. — Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, author of Tonguebreaker, Dirty River, Care Work, co-editor of Beyond Survival ZOM-FAM is uplifted by Kama La Mackerel’s years of intimate stage performance. They are an interdisciplinary artist who unquestionably knows how to summon their audience’s close and venerated attention. These long-form poems offer highly engaged and unique modes of storytelling. Even on the page, one can hear La Mackerel’s arresting anaphora, breathy rhythms and varied lyrical tempo; one can see their abundance of sensory imagery and motifs of Mauritian place making. Both enchanting and exacting, these poems are, indeed, blessed with the femme divine. — Amber Dawn, author of How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler’s Memoir Kama subverts the coming of age story into radiant poetry, brimming with ritual, ancestry and feminine power. ZOM-FAM is the book I’ve been eagerly waiting for. — Vivek Shraya, author of even this page is white and I’m Afraid of Men Kama La Mackerel’s long-awaited debut collection bursts to life like an ancient goddess being reborn from the sea to sing songs that unmake and remake the world. La Mackerel’s years of community-building, scholarship, performance art and ritual fairly leap from the page, skillfully weaving multilingualism, mythology, oral tradition and sheer exuberance into a shimmering reclamation of geography, history and body. ZOM-FAM covers territory both vast and deep in eight narrative poems, mapping the impacts of centuries of colonization, migration and resistance as they manifest in the body of one extraordinary storyteller whose life and work transcend colonial notions of race and gender. Read this book. You’ll still hear that goddess singing long after you turn the final page. — Kai Cheng Thom, author of Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Specs Title: ZOM-FAM Author: Kama La Mackerel Trim size: 6′ x 8′ Format: Paperback Season: Fall 2020 Pub date: September 10, 2020 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-1-9990588-4-5 Category: Contemporary post-colonial poetry Target Audience: Descendants of the indenture, QTBIPOC, diasporic audiences, contemporary poetry lovers, trans people Market Keywords: Mauritius, lyric poetry, trans, transgender, indenture, diaspora, postcolonialism, zom-fam, islander, servitude, plantation, queer, femme, family, ancestors, Indo-African See for comparison: The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (978-1-8477726-7-1) Passage (978-1-9281200-8-7) Sample author questions Tell us about the origins of this project. This project first started as a series separate of spoken word pieces that I had written between 2013-16. Each of these pieces dealt with the legacies of colonization with regards to migration, race, gender and queerness. In 2016 I realized that there was a deeper storyline about Mauritius and my childhood on the plantation island. This was when I started to develop the narrative arc of ZOM-FAM as a whole, and notLire la suite »https://metonymypress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/FINAL-July-10-RBG-225x300.jpg