J.K. Pikkujämsä

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  • The Jungo: Stakes of the Earth

    I finished two books recently: The Book of Khartoum – A City in Short Fiction edited by Raph Cormack and Mack Schmookler; and The Jungo, Stakes of the Earth by Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin. The former is a collection of stories in a series named “A City in Short Fiction” and it is a very…

    j.k. pikkujamsa

    July 14, 2020
    ENGLISH, monograph
    novel, orature, poetry, review, shorts, sudan, translation
  • Say It In Pulaar

    The nightly curfew ends at six in the morning and soon after that, every day, I hear a young guy recite the Koran out loud and walk past the house on his way to… where? It’s almost as if he were “disinfecting” the town with his voice, walking on the empty streets at this hour,…

    j.k. pikkujamsa

    April 9, 2020
    ENGLISH, Pulaar
    curfew, diary, haalpulaar, language, street
  • Tarinoita Senegaljoesta

    Pohjois-Senegalin Saint-Louis’n saarella huijaripapit, aaveet, siirtomaaherrat ja ruumiita joesta sukeltava Seydou tutustuttavat lukijansa kaupungin värikkääseen arkeen ja valaisevat tarinoillaan millaista on asua Senegal-joen varrella ja välillä joen uumenissakin. Kalastajistaan ja siirtomaa-ajan historiastaan tunnetun saaren suulliseen perinteeseen nojaavat tarinat päätyvät harvoin kirjoihin ja kansiin, puhumattakaan että niitä voisi lukea suomeksi. Nyt se on mahdollista! Teos (114…

    j.k. pikkujamsa

    February 7, 2019
    Late Afternoon Publishing, monograph, SUOMEKSI
    indie, saint-louis, senegal, tarinat, valokuvakirja
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