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Zong! Paperback – 14 September 2011

by Setaey Adamu Boateng (Contributor), M. NourbeSe Philip (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars 118
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In November, 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship's owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert-the only extant public document related to the massacre of these African slaves-Zong! tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, Zong! excavates the legal text. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, Zong! becomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten. Check for the online reader's companion at http://zong.site.wesleyan.edu.
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    0819571695
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    978-0819571694
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publisher
    Wesleyan University Press
  5. Publication date
    14 September 2011
  6. Language
    English
  7. Dimensions
    19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
  8. Print length
    224 pages
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Wesleyan University Press; 1st edition (14 September 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0819571695
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0819571694
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 19.05 x 1.91 x 24.13 cm
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 out of 5 stars 118

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Important Contribution to World Literature, Historic Accounting and Experimental Poetry
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Written by the Barbadian-Canadian, lawyer-poet M. NourbeSe Philip, Zong! is poetry on the edge in that it is telling the November 28, 1781 story for which "...there is no telling...;it must be told..." in a bracing, lament-like cry, a cry of horrified remembrance for the approximately 150 slaves who were tossed to their deaths from the slave ship the Zong for the sake -- as we will learn -- of their potential insurance payout value. Zong! is also on the edge in that it is experimental poetry that is entirely based upon the deconstruction and reconstruction of language that has been teased out and played with in every conceivable permutation of language from the only historic text that records the atrocity, the summary of the insurance claim court case that was brought before Lord Mansfield, the Lord Chief Justice of England, at the Court of King's Bench.
While predominantly English, the original court text is used to draw out words from 12 European and African languages that are blended into a scattershot, often interrupted and jerky poetic form of construction, reconstruction and word play, double meanings and sounds that cover the horror of the experience. And appropriately, this is a text that can best be described as an 'experienced' one, delivered through sound, connection-making, construction and reconstruction and from the full knowledge of the background situation (the full text of the 1783 court document is recorded at the back of the book) which looms ever-present and aids to bind the whole together.

As horrific as its contents are, the book and its poetry are incredibly and cleverly conceived and do what the author had intended they would. She struggled, almost ached, over how to convey the story and has done so within the limits placed upon herself; the restricting of all source material for the poem to the confines of the legal text itself, but that has resulted in a poetic form that conveys the experience with immense effect.
Since its publication, Zong! has inspired annual 28th November commemorative reading sessions, many of which can be joined electronically or watched on Youtube. I strongly recommend the book and the sobering human experience of reading it.
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I originally saw a video about it mid pandemic. I bought it and read it. It is worth the time. The poetry is a beautiful and harsh representation of the suffering that happened onboard the Zong ship.

I even taught a unit on it and the injustices. Student were perplexed but intrigued. It is more than a great read!
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