Ancestors
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Ancestors startlingly reinvents one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. Here in a single volume is Kamau Brathwaite's long unavailable, landmark trilogy-- Mother Poem , Sun Poem , and X/Self (1977, 1982, and 1987)--now completely revised and expanded by the author. With its "Video Sycorax" typographic inventions and linguistic play, Ancestors liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its fresh and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the "intercovery") of Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0811214486
ISBN13:9780811214483
Release Date:June 2001
Publisher:New Directions Publishing Corporation
Length:473 Pages
Weight:1.44 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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