Ancestors : a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self / Kamau Brathwaite.
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TextPublication details: New York, N.Y. ; [Great Britain] : New Directions, 2001Description: 473 p. ; 23 cmContent type: text ISBN: 9780811214483 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Imperialism -- Poetry | Slavery -- Poetry | Racism -- Poetry | Literature | Poetry by individual poets | Poetry | Barbados -- Poetry | Caribbean Area -- PoetryDDC classification: 811.54 Summary: Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's "Mother Poem," "Sun Poem," and "X/Self" poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism. Ancestorsstartlingly 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, andX/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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Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's "Mother Poem," "Sun Poem," and "X/Self" poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism. Ancestorsstartlingly 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, andX/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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