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11 janvier 2019
- handle: 10670/1.j2v7x3
- isbn: 9781783744688
- eisbn: 9791036516603
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Soso Tham, « 10. Ka Ïing I Mei–Home », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.j2v7x3
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A more literal translation of the title is “The House that Belongs to my Mother” or “My Mother’s Home”. Here “Mei” refers both to the biological mother and to the poet’s homeland, for both have nurtured the poet’s being. With the dawn of hope and light in the preceding section it is natural that the poet now describes what it feels like to be home. He goes back in time to his childhood and to the daily rituals where the sacred codes of life are affirmed. Finally, he moves on to describe the r...