Canticles I: (MMXVI): (Mmxvi) Volume 217

by George Elliott Clarke

Book I of The Canticles puts into dialogue -- as dramatic monologues -- those who fostered the transatlantic slave trade, or who demonized the image of the Negro in the Occident; as well as those who struggled for liberation and/or anti-racism. In this work, Dante can critique Christopher Columbus and Frederick Douglass can upbraid Abraham Lincoln; Elizabeth Barrett Browning can muse on her African racial heritage and its implications for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550719122
• ISBN13: 9781550719123
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 8.9"