Title: Ancestors
Subtitle: a reinvention of Mother poem, Sun poem, and X/self
First published: 2001
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.
Subjects: Imperialism, Poetry, Slavery, Racism, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
Places: Caribbean Area, Barbados
LC classification: PR9230.9.B68 A57 2001