{"title":"Siphokazi Jonas","description":"\u003cp\u003eSiphokazi Jonas delivers powerful spoken word and poetry that weaves personal truth with social commentary, igniting thought and emotion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"weeping-becomes-a-river-paperback","title":"Weeping Becomes A River (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIf a Shakespearean actor, a Christian missionary and an isiXhosa praise poet walked into a bar, their conversation would sound something like the poems in this collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSiphokazi Jonas is a weaver of seemingly discordant worlds; growing up in an Afrikaans dorpie during the transition years of a newly democratic South Africa and going on annual holidays to a village made this a necessity. Her work as a spoken word poet often fuses poetry, theatre and film, and she brings this genre-mixing to the page by using the intsomi form to weave the narrative of her poems together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJonas’s poems explore the impact of linguistic and cultural alienation as a black learner in former Model C schools in the 1990s and early 2000s. She is not only a referee of the internal war between isiXhosa and English within her, but she pieces together a language for leaving and returning between the past and the present, and a possible future. Her poems ask questions about navigating tradition, religion, migration between rural and urban spaces, and how families choose to make their own culture. Weeping Becomes a River is a timely reflection on the cost of being the early test subjects of South Africa’s democratic project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Siphokazi Jonas","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44480910786738,"sku":"9781776392087","price":230.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/9191\/8002\/files\/9781776392087.jpg?v=1722505087"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.wordsworth.co.za\/collections\/siphokazi-jonas.oembed","provider":"Wordsworth Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}