The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive : being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs /
"Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs, which continues Marcia Douglas's "speculative ancestral project&quo...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
New Directions Publishing Corporation,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | "Zooming into tight focus on present-day life and dashing deep into the past in turns, the pace is fast and fierce in The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive: being dreamity, algoriddims, chants & riffs, which continues Marcia Douglas's "speculative ancestral project" (The Whiting Foundation) begun with The Marvellous Equations of the Dread. Her new poetic and eco-spiritual book carries further the cultural preservation so central to Douglas' vision. The Shante Dream Arkive brings alive a mosaic of characters--all searching through history for something or someone lost to the island: a mother searches for her missing child through time and space; an undocumented migrant's struggles with loss while living in the US; a youth wanders through dream- gates seeking liberation and the lost parts of himself. And one key to the whole is Zora Neal Hurston's left-behind camera. Each chapter/poem opens like an aperture onto another aspect of the dream story"-- |
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| Item Description: | "A New Directions paperbook original (NDP1627)" |
| Physical Description: | xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780811231176 0811231178 |