Zong! / M. NourbeSe Philip ; as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng.
| Author/creator | Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1947- |
| Other author | Boateng, Setaey Adamu. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2008. |
| Description | 1 online resource (xii, 211 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Wesleyan poetry Wesleyan poetry. ^A219657 |
| Contents | Os -- Sal -- Ventus -- Ratio -- Ferrum -- Ebora -- Glossary: Words and Phrases Heard on Board the Zong -- Manifest -- Notanda -- Gregson v. Gilbert. |
| Abstract | "In November 1781, thee 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."--Jacket. |
| General note | First Wesleyan paperback 2011. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language | English. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1947- Zong!. Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, ©2008 |
| Genre/form | Poetry. |
| LCCN | 2007052378 |
| ISBN | 9780819572455 (e-book) |
| ISBN | 0819572454 (e-book) |
| ISBN | (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1283409933 |
| ISBN | 9781283409933 |
| ISBN | 9786613409935 |
| ISBN | 6613409936 |
| Govt. docs number | WRI3001 |