Japanabandon

Japanabandon - Travels in Japan is a collection of autoethnographic poems that explore the poet's experiences and reflections of teaching in Japan in the late 1990s.

These poems investigate the themes of dislocation in migration and home as both an imagined and remembered place.

Japan is part of a wider challenge for this Anglo-Ghanaian poet to find Zion. Moss navigates an unfamiliar culture with an already developed outsider's perspective and double consciousness. The poet inhabits a privileged vantage point of being able to see in both directions and now a third is added.

Moss's writing about Japan considers the interplay between Occidental views of the Orient and Oriental views of the Occident, journeying through the topography of Edward Said's 'imaginative geographies and histories.'

The poems in Japanabandon chart initial culture shocks, their tremors and aftershocks.

About the Author

Andrew is a writer and teacher who has lived in the UK, Japan and currently Australia. Of Anglo-Ghanaian heritage, his work seeks to explore and challenge liminal landscapes, complex identities and the social constructs of race.

Most recently, his work is featured ­­­­in 'The Best New British and Irish Poets Anthology 2019-2021', The Black Spring Press Group, ‘Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures’, Litoria Press and 'Nombono: An Anthology of Speculative Poetry by BIPOC Poets' by Sundress Publications.

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