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Ancestors | 
 enlarge | Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Category: Book
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 894309
Media: Paperback
Pages: 544
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0811214486
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780811214483
ASIN: 0811214486
Publication Date: June 29, 2001
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The long-awaited single volume of Kamau Brathwaite's landmark trilogy--Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self-- now completely revised, expanded, and reinvented by the author. Ancestors is a startling reinvention of one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. The original three volumes, Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self (1977, 1982, and 1987, Oxford University Press), widely recognized as crucial to Kamau Brathwaite's work, have long been unavailable in the US. Ancestors, which completely revises the trilogy, rediscovers Barbados -- the place, its history and ethos -- as well as the poet's family and childhood. With its "Video Sycorax" typographic inventions and linguistic play, Ancestors liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its new 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.
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(Re)Invention of an Invention October 21, 2002
Emily Williams (Atlanta, GA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Ancestors is a "must' read for scholars and critics of Caribbean literature and poetry. Brathwaite (re)invents an invention - a technique that must be recognized as his signature. He is clearly "the" unique voice in the Anglophone Caribbean Literary Canon. My book, The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite, which will be published by Greenwood Press in 2003, will further demonstrate his artistry from the 1960s to the present.
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