Canticles I: (MMXVI): (Mmxvi) Volume 217

Book I of The Canticles puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In this work, Dante can critique Christopher Columbus and Frederick Douglass can upbraid Abraham Lincoln; Elizabeth Barrett Browning can muse on her African racial heritage and its implications for child-bearing, while Karl Marx can excoriate Queen Victoria. Book II will focus on Black folk readings of Scripture, Hebrew and Greek, with a few other religious texts canvassed too. Book III will narrate the rise of the African Baptist Association of Nova Scotia.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Guernica Editions
Published: 08/01/2016
ISBN: 9781550719123
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.20d