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Ancestors

Ancestors

Brathwaite, Kamau

Paperback

Series: New Directions Paperbook, Book 902

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0811214486
ISBN13: 9780811214483
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jun 17 2001
Pages: 473
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.04 Depth: 8.96
Language: English
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.

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