Bøker av Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss

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.

Diaspora3 is an exploration of Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss's Akan-Anglo-Australian identity. This collection travels forth and back, overlapping/ dovetailing memories of time, people and place. Indigenous Australian, European and African diaspora dynamics are connected to the poet's personal experiences and hopes for the future.The collection seeks to explore, interrogate and challenge notions of fixed identities and nation states. Diaspora3 is a ceremonial attempt to keep a spirit of hybrid realities and alternatives alive.

Manifest.oh! grapples with (post and neo) colonial themes of race and migration, housing inequalities, war and its connection to Empire and decolonisation.Andrew Geoffrey Kwabena Moss proposes a manifesto for peace and convivial living, where we might dare to live in a state of 'ordinary hybrid bliss'.

High school student Norman "Zebra" Smith, half British & half Ghanaian, lives at the crossroads of race and identification. In response to racial slurs from other students, Norman embraces hybridity and forms a Rainbow Alliance with other ethnic minority students against black & white judgements. Inspired to act by a colourful combination of Hip Hop, Shakespeare, his teacher Mr Neal and the US Civil Rights movement, Norman and his allies use the unlikely arena of a High School auditorium to expose the racist bully Goodwin and his henchmen. Choosing to own their "nicked names", Norman and his friends take centre stage, silencing their opponents and proving the power of words to unite us all.