Ancestors

By Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811214486
• ISBN13: 9780811214483
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 473 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"