{"product_id":"9780811214483","title":"Ancestors","description":" The long-awaited single volume of Kamau Brathwaite's landmark trilogy--\u003ci\u003eMother Poem, Sun Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eX\/Self\u003c\/i\u003e-- now completely revised, expanded, and reinvented by the author. \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e is a startling reinvention of one of the most important long poems of our hemisphere. The original three volumes, \u003ci\u003eMother Poem, Sun Poem\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eX\/Self\u003c\/i\u003e (1977, 1982, and 1987, Oxford University Press), widely recognized as crucial to Kamau Brathwaite's work, have long been unavailable in the US. \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e, which completely revises the trilogy, rediscovers Barbados -- the place, its history and ethos -- as well as the poet's family and childhood. With its \"Video Sycorax\" typographic inventions and linguistic play, \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e liberates both the language and the new-Caliban vision of the poet. In its new and more experimental form the trilogy embodies the recapture (what the poet has called the \"intercovery\") of Brathwaite's African\/Caribbean ancestry as a possession of power and renewal, even as it plumbs the deep tonalities of enslavement, oppression, and colonial dispossession.  ","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016583889136,"sku":"9780811214483","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811214483_p0.jpg?v=1763728516","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811214483","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}