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a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self

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Ancestors

a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self

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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."--Jacket.

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Publisher
New Directions
Language
English
Pages
473

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Ancestors: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self
2001, New Directions
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PR9230.9.B68 A57 2001, PR9230.9.B68A57 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
473 p. ;
Number of pages
473

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6791493M
Internet Archive
ancestorsreinven00brat
ISBN 10
0811214486
LCCN
00055023
OCLC/WorldCat
44426964
Library Thing
1034644
Goodreads
926046

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