Obligations to the Wounded
Stories
by Mubanga Kalimamukwento
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Pub Date Oct 08 2024 | Archive Date Oct 31 2024
Description
Winner of the 2024 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Angie Cruz
In formally adventurous stories rooted in Zambian literary tradition, Obligations to the Wounded explores 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.
A Note From the Publisher
Advance Praise
“These thematically linked stories deliver an intricate study of Zambian women living both in Zambia and abroad who are weighing their options for whom to love, where to live, where to work. The author, with a poet’s restraint, has written stories that deftly negotiate the challenges and tribulations women face when they feel the pressure and duty to yield to the will of family, community, customs, country, and spiritual beliefs. Obligations to the Wounded is a graceful, touching, and generous collection.” —Angie Cruz, Drue Heinz Literature Prize judge and author of How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water
"Rendered in rich, rolling, and riveting prose, Obligations to the Wounded is written with great care, pacing, and hard-won wisdom by one of Africa’s most talented writers. This collection of short stories, which uses Zambian womanhood as its contextual exploration point, offers the reader something approaching a universal understanding of the challenges women face in contemporary African and world societies. With these perspicacious stories, Kalimamukwento has compiled a collection of tales that will shock, awe, and delight readers and lovers of stories wherever they are found. Obligations to the Wounded is the work of a writer in the full flow of her storytelling prowess.” —Rémy Ngamije, author of The Eternal Audience of One
Marketing Plan
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- Targeted outreach to African and women's interest media
- Select author appearances
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- Feature at AWP 2025
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780822948360 |
| PRICE | $24.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 168 |
