Landsmoder

Landsmoder is a performance poem collection by Elena Salamanca that retools patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth. It is a feminist grief, rage, and irony work that appears in a bilingual edition.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 50 pages
Publication date: 22 December 2022
Publisher: not a cult LLC

Landsmoder, a powerful and often unsettling exploration of the complex intersections between nationalism, dogma, patriarchy, and violence, is a work by the Salvadoran poet, historian, and performance artist Elena Salamanca. Originally read aloud from the oldest standing monument in San Salvador's historic center, the performance poems in Landsmoder reimagine the celebratory pomp of patriotic ceremony to protest the weaponization of national myth as a cover for the erasure, cruelty, and neglect perpetrated by the state. This unflinching collection, whose title is derived from a Norwegian word that Salamanca translates as "mother of the nation" or "mother of the homeland/fatherland," is a feminist lament, rage, and irony filled with churning wombs, bloodied flags, and ratteboned she-wolves. Nearly a decade after its initial performance, Landsmoder remains an urgent subversion, loud and resonant both on and off the page.

Weight: 136g
Dimension: 126 x 203 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781945649912