Gitan Djeli

In Unrest in the Nebulae, Gitan Djeli wields prose poetry to archive five hundred years of exploitative colonisation, ecocide, extinction, militarisation and deportation, slavery, indenture, negotiated nationhood, postcolonial plantation structures, and apologist histories. Writing in a queer anticolonial poetics, and using lines of Kreol, Gitan Djeli mines the tension that emerges between colonialism and language, disarticulating the myth-making aesthetics of...