Ancestors
Subtitle: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self
By: Kamau Brathwaite.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 473
Subjects: Imperialism -- Poetry.; Slavery -- Poetry.; Racism -- Poetry.; Barbados -- Poetry.; Caribbean Area -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry.
Description: "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."--Jacket.