How Does Boateng Write Zong
As we all know, M. NourbeSe Philip is famous as a Caribbean- Canadian poet, novelist, lawyer, playwright, essayist, and short story writer and her amazing experiments with literary form. Her most recent amazing work Zong! M. NourbeSe Philip As told to the author by Setaey Adamu Boateng is a collection of poetry, which is filled with unusual poems made of words taken from a court decision by Gregson v. Gilbert. The poetry is a reflection about the notorious massacre case “cannot be told, yet must be told” (Philip 198), which was regarded about still alive 150 Negro slaves aboard the slave ship Zong were thrown into the ocean for the captain and crew to collect the insurance in 1781. In other words, rather than using the formal narrative, Philip applied the loose and scattered fragment pieces to create and establish her unique poetic structure to illustrate the repetitive nature of words to retrace and rework on the horrific historical cruelty through the gorgeous experiment as an absolute necessity to give the voice to these
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should be indicated as a suitable literary text that enables to relate with the various theories. Feminism, post-structuralism and structuralism are especially possible to exclusively implicate in the way that Philip forms the text. For structuralism, it is evident that the poem wavers between legal language, that involving Gregson v Gilbert, and poetry in order trigger meaning, emotion and history; thereby implying structuralist view about signified and signifier. In addition, connectedness with post-structuralism also reveals itself: The assertion by Philip, “There is no telling this story; it must be told” (Philip 195) is enough to paint the reader decentering the author from being the subject inquiry, in deriving meaning. For feminism, the way in which she structures movement by the words, without introducing a pronoun (he or she) allows her to support the feminist movement of making writing gender
should be indicated as a suitable literary text that enables to relate with the various theories. Feminism, post-structuralism and structuralism are especially possible to exclusively implicate in the way that Philip forms the text. For structuralism, it is evident that the poem wavers between legal language, that involving Gregson v Gilbert, and poetry in order trigger meaning, emotion and history; thereby implying structuralist view about signified and signifier. In addition, connectedness with post-structuralism also reveals itself: The assertion by Philip, “There is no telling this story; it must be told” (Philip 195) is enough to paint the reader decentering the author from being the subject inquiry, in deriving meaning. For feminism, the way in which she structures movement by the words, without introducing a pronoun (he or she) allows her to support the feminist movement of making writing gender