Zong As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng 2011 printing 1st Edition by Nourbese Philip 0819571695 9780819571694

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ISBN 10: 0819571695
ISBN 13: 9780819571694
Author: M. Nourbese Philip

In November, 1781, the 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. Check for the online reader’s companion at http://zong.site.wesleyan.edu.

Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng 2011 Printing 1st Table of contents:

1. Acknowledgments
2. Os
3. Sal
4. Ventus
5. Ratio
6. Ferrum
7. Ebora
8. Glossary:Words and Phrases Heard on Board the Zong
9. Manifest
10. Notanda
11. Gregson v. Gilbert

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