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- Book Synopsis
- Focusing on a sense of duty--to record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the differences that prejudice may interpose between private and public selves--this rich collection of poetry hinges upon a sequence of poems that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean to the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. Drawing connections between present-day Lancaster and the foundations of its 18th-century prosperity in slave trading, the account places Samboo's tragedy in the Lancaster landscape and text that offers a deeply personal response to the bicentennial of the abolition of the British slave trade. Contemporary poems provide both a counterpoint to the emptiness of Samboo's too-soon curtailed life and echo a continuity of loss wrought by the fragmentation of Afro-Caribbean families through continuing migrations and death.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781845230586
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press, (03 November 2008)
- Number of Pages
- 90
- Weight
- 127 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 135 x 205 x 11 mm
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