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"Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Testament II--these Canticles II (MMXIX) and next Canticles II (MMXX)--issues re-readings--revisions, rewrites--of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) follows Testament I (also issued in two pa...

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Main Author: Clarke, George Elliott (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Hebrew
Chinese
Language Notes:Text is primarily in English with some sections in Hebrew and Chinese.
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; Lancaster (U.K.) : Guernica Editions, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Essential poets ; 263.
Subjects:
Slavery > Poetry.
Slave trade > Poetry.
Blacks > Race identity > Poetry.
Slaves > Emancipation > Poetry.
Blacks > Race identity.
Slave trade.
Slavery.
Slaves > Emancipation.
Historical poetry.
Poetry.
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Summary:"Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Testament II--these Canticles II (MMXIX) and next Canticles II (MMXX)--issues re-readings--revisions, rewrites--of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African Diaspora in the Americas. Canticles II (MMXIX) follows Testament I (also issued in two parts--Canticles I [MMXVI] and Canticles I [MMXVII]) whose subject is History, principally, of slavery and imperialism and liberation and independence. Canticles II is properly irreverent where necessary, but never blasphemous. It is scripture become what it always is, really, anyway: Poetry."--
Item Description:Poems.
Physical Description:xv, 505 pages ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (page 501).
ISBN:9781771834094
1771834099