M. NourbeSe Philip - Zong! - Paperback

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The Author Name is M. NourbeSe Philip
The Title is Zong!

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In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the shipa€s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson vs Gilberta€”the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slavesa€” 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. a€˜Zong! is not just a book of poetry it is a method displaying itself like a deep-sea creature that blossoms in search of food: the instant when a€˜the material and nonmaterial come together in unexpected waysa€, allowing the erased story of the slave ship to recompose itself in us.a€ Cecilia Vicuña

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