Some days the sun beats down like it never will rain again, and everyone tastes flakes of rusty earth upon their tongues. My mother and I are hanging sheets we have just washed in the Rio Doce. I yawn into the sunlight. “Shola,” my mother says. “Did I see you staring after Akin this morning […]
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Background interview by Africans of Brazilians. Initiation rites & creation myths:
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I am researching Yoruba as part of my candomblé studies. Sometimes it helps me to think as a child. That’s how we learn our native language, right? So listen to the song behind the language, how the adverbs are stressed, the ‘ke’ before the numbers. “e ke so” Neat.
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I enjoyed the film (it’s actually a 3-part mini-novela.) Production was primitive, and I think this was intentional to add to the backcountry setting. The screenplay was well written with great dialogue (all in nordestino caipira dialect) and excellent acting. I enjoyed seeing Lima Duarte as the Bispo. I remember him from Roque Santeiro,
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The House of Shattered Wings by Aliette de BodardMy rating: 4 of 5 stars Aliette de Bodard crafts a dystopian world in an alternate history where The Great War led to a earth-shattering conclusion forever crippling the civilized world. With its roots in fallen angels, where there is a market in their very skin, bones,