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Taslīm

By (author): Carolyn Ramzy

This volume of pithy, defiant poetry and prose explore the burden of taslīm–an oral transmission of heritage and ancestral knowledge–on Coptic Orthodox women. These poems highlight the ways in which Coptic women navigate the responsibilities of transmitting ancestral knowledge while reckoning with its costs: deferred joy and pleasure until the afterlife, an almost compulsory notion of motherhood, and a gendered comportment of sacrifice and submission, even in diaspora. Taslīm in the Christian minority of Egypt becomes an even more rigid bind in immigrant communities abroad. This book is ultimately a feminist manifesto for freedom, and the choice to live and desire out loud.

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Carolyn Ramzys Taslm We Are the Prophets refuses silence Like Audre Lorde she lives as an act of resistance Following in Lordes tradition her work is both a model of autoethnographic refusal and a blueprint for cultural transformation By claiming what others have tried to strip from herher Copticitywhile reckoning with its fractures and dissonance she forges a path toward repair More than just personal testimony it is an invitation Aly Tadros from the Afterword



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Dimensions:

176 Pages
8.50in * 5.60in * .50in
260.00gr

Published:

May 16, 2025

ISBN:

9781774151860

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Women Authors

Language:

eng

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