Zong!
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Publication
2008 - Wesleyan University Press, Middletown, Conn, Connecticut
Language
English
Word Count
52,750 words, Guess
Page Count
211 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivezong0000phil
- ISBN-139780819568762
- ISBN-100819568767
- LibraryThing7615008
- Library of Congress Control Number2007052378
and 5 more
- OCLC Control Number185095663
- OCLC Control Number771875920
- OCLC Control Number741252076
- Better World Books9780819568762
- Open LibraryOL16365478M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPR9199.3.P456 Z66 2008
- LCCPR9199.3.P456Z66
and 2 more
- LCCPR9199.3.P456 .P889 2011
- LCCPR9199.3.P456 Z66 2011
Description
"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." --Book Jacket.
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