Zong!

by Philip, Marlene Nourbese

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Title Statements

Full title :Zong! / M. NourbeSe Philip ; as told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng.

Summary

"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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Wesleyan University Press
Place of Publication:Middletown, Conn
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2008.

Notes

First Wesleyan paperback 2011.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 211 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780819572455, 0819572454, 1283409933, 9781283409933, 9786613409935, 6613409936
oclc:ocn785776931
LC Classification:PR9199.3.P456
Dewey Decimal:811/.54

Os -- Sal -- Ventus -- Ratio -- Ferrum -- Ebora -- Glossary: Words and Phrases Heard on Board the Zong -- Manifest -- Notanda -- Gregson v. Gilbert.