{"product_id":"ancestors-kamau-brathwaite-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\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kamau Brathwaite\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811214486\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811214483\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/17\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 473\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\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\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2001 pg. 89","brand":"Kamau Brathwaite","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926340567295,"sku":"9780811214483","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_c1b6259e-15e3-42f2-b00e-3c1cb9466dac.jpg?v=1681082530","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ancestors-kamau-brathwaite-9780811214483","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}