Zong!

Informationen zum Autor M. NOURBESE PHILIP is a poet, writer, and lawyer whose previous collections of poetry include She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989). Born in Tobago, she now resides in Toronto, Ontario. SETAEY ADAMU BOATENG is the voice of the ancestors revealing the submerged stories of all who were on board the Zong. Klappentext "In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves--Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten"--Back cover. Zusammenfassung A haunting lifeline between archive and memory! law and poetry

Product details

• Authors: M. NourbeSe Philip, M. NourbeSe Philip, M. Nourbese/ Boateng Philip
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.08.2011
• EAN: 9780819571694
• ISBN: 978-0-8195-7169-4
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: Wesleyan Poetry; Wesleyan Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies