{"product_id":"ancestors-9780811214483","title":"Ancestors","description":"\u003cem\u003eAncestors\u003c\/em\u003e 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--\u003cem\u003eMother Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSun Poem\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eX\/Self\u003c\/em\u003e (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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.96h x 6.04w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 89\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kamau Brathwaite","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43096112890037,"sku":"9780811214483","price":19.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6403bbb5-1e5b-4e15-9c22-1a4c300f5b43.jpg?v=1692802207","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ancestors-9780811214483","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}