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On Ecstatic-Aesthetic Universality—In Zong!

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Daniel Benjamin
Small Axe (2019) 23 (1 (58)): 17–34.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7374418
Published: 01 March 2019
...Daniel Benjamin This essay argues that M. NourbeSe Philip’s 2008 book-length poem Zong! offers aesthetic experience as an undetermined exposure toward communality. As readers, we are not merely consuming the poem, which emerges from Philip’s reading of a 1781 court decision regarding a slave...
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Zong! Poems

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M. NourbeSe Philip
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 80–111.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-80
Published: 01 June 2008
...M. NourbeSe Philip Small Axe Incorporated 2008 Zong! Poems M. NourbeSe Philip Prologue The story of the eighteenth-century slave ship Zong is one that continues to haunt the imaginations of artists and writers. Among those who have engaged with the horrific events...
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The Tragedy of the Zong

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Geoffrey Philp
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 245–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-245
Published: 01 March 2004
... by the murky processes of empire. 224444 The Tragedy of the Zong Geoffrey Philp Feeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0060955937 eeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar’s third novel, is a narrative reconstruction of the ill-fated journey of the Zong...
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In Conversation with History: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip

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Marta Fernández Campa
Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 85–100.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724079
Published: 01 March 2022
...Marta Fernández Campa This interview with acclaimed Trinbagonian Canadian author M. NourbeSe Philip offers an insight into her creative process, particularly in relation to Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng . It delves into the critical querying and ethical concerns guiding...
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Defending the Dead, Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip

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Patricia Saunders
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 63–79.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-63
Published: 01 June 2008
.... In Gregson v. Gilbert the material and non-material would come together in unexpected ways. An accurate interpretation of the contract of insurance, according to the owners of the Zong, that is, would result in great financial benefit to them: they would be paid for murdering 150 Africans...
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Coming to Terms

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Stewart Brown
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): 242–244.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-242
Published: 01 March 2004
... by the murky processes of empire. 224444 The Tragedy of the Zong Geoffrey Philp Feeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. ISBN 0060955937 eeding the Ghosts, Fred D’Aguiar’s third novel, is a narrative reconstruction of the ill-fated journey of the Zong...
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From “Numbered Notations” to Named Ancestors: Finding Contemporary Meaning in Vincent Brown's The Reaper's Garden

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Verene A. Shepherd
Small Axe (2010) 14 (1 (31)): 212–218.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2009-053
Published: 01 March 2010
... emancipation war), at Kingston Harbor (to mark the arrival point of so many Africans), and at Black River (in memory of those on the slaver Zong). Two of the three monuments have since been constructed and unveiled. It was a period in which many sectors in the Jamaican society were asking for the list...
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A Poetics of Postmourning: Elegy and the Caribbean

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Jahan Ramazani
Small Axe (2024) 28 (3 (75)): 1–16.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-11592568
Published: 01 November 2024
... Matter Era (Jacksonville: University of Mississippi Press, 2020). On contemporary African American poems about enslavement, including Philip’s Zong! , see Evie Shockley, “Going Overboard: African American Poetic Innovation and the Middle Passage,” Contemporary Literature 52, no. 4 (2011): 791–817...
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Alternative Soundscape Paradigms from Kamau Brathwaite and the Mighty Sparrow

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Mark Harris
Small Axe (2021) 25 (2 (65)): 16–35.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9384184
Published: 01 July 2021
....” Attali, Noise , 133. 55 Sharpe, In the Wake , 13. 56 Ibid., 21. 57 M. NourbeSe Philip, Zong! (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008), 199. 58 Ibid., 205. 59 Ibid., 193, 207. 60 Kamau Brathwaite, “My Poetry.” 61 Aimé Césaire, Return to My...
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Not Child but Meager: Sexualization and Negation of Black Childhood

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Tezeru Teshome, K. Wayne Yang
Small Axe (2018) 22 (3 (57)): 160–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7249292
Published: 01 November 2018
... in the ledger with the notation “negro man, ditto, negro woman, ditto.” “There were,” on the Zong ’s and other ships’ manifestos, Philip tells us, “no names—the lists of slaves in the book were simply identified as ‘Negro man’ or ‘Negro woman’ at the top of the ledger and the account book followed by ‘ditto...
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Contributors

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Small Axe (2022) 26 (1 (67)): 205–208.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-9724219
Published: 01 March 2022
...-breaking book-length epic Zong! (2008). She is a Guggenheim and Rockefeller Fellow (Bellagio) and in 2020 was the recipient of the PEN/ Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. In 2021 she was awarded the Arts Molson Prize by the Canada Council for “invaluable contributions...
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Preface

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David Scott
Small Axe (2004) 8 (1 (15)): v–vii.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-8-1-v
Published: 01 March 2004
... Historical Traces: A Virtual Exiles Project Roshini Kempadoo 235 REVIEWS Coming to Terms Stewart Brown 242 The Tragedy of the Zong Geoffrey Philp...
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Introduction: On the Archaeologies of Black Memory

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David Scott
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): v–xvi.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-v
Published: 01 June 2008
..., Confronting the Archive: A Conversation with M. NourbeSe Philip Patricia Saunders 63 Zong! Poems M. NourbeSe Philip 80 Subverting Colonial Portraiture...
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When Spirits Talk: Reading Erna Brodber's Louisiana for Affect

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Jenny Sharpe
Small Axe (2012) 16 (3 39): 90–102.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1894114
Published: 01 November 2012
... and discovers the magic pot. She gets the 29 In a companion piece to this essay, “The Archive and Affective Memory in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong forthcoming in Interventions, I read Philip’s Zong! poems for their interrogation of the materiality of the archives and the logic of language. 100 | When...
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Mine the Ruins

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Petal Samuel
Small Axe (2019) 23 (3 (60)): 178–184.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-7912478
Published: 01 November 2019
.... 20 Kincaid, A Small Place , 16. 21 Ibid., 10, 32. 22 Kathleen DeGuzman, “Economies of Entanglement: Reading Radical Cultural Work in the Anglophone Caribbean and Victorian Britain” (PhD diss., Vanderbilt University, 2015), 149; M. NourbeSe Philip (and Setaey Adamu Boateng), Zong...
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Venus in Two Acts

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Saidiya Hartman
Small Axe (2008) 12 (2): 1–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/-12-2-1
Published: 01 June 2008
... or space of confinement but as an episteme, has for the most part focused the historiography of the slave trade on quantitative 6. Ibid., 281, 284. 7. M. NourbeSe Philip, Zong! (Middletown: Wesleyan University Press, forthcoming). 8. Stephen Best, “The African Queen,” unpublished essay. 9...
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A Queer Pier: Roundtable on the Idea of a Black Radical Tradition

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Nijah Cunningham
Small Axe (2013) 17 (1 (40)): 84–95.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1665452
Published: 01 March 2013
... Tradition (London: Zed, 1983), 82; and Fred Moten, In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003), 1–24. 5 M. Nourbese Philip, Zong! (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2008), 190. 6 Robin D. G. Kelley, forward...
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Gaiutra Bahadur’s Coolie Woman : Intimacies, Proximities, Relationalities

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D. Alissa Trotz
Small Axe (2018) 22 (2 (56)): 219–231.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-6985935
Published: 01 July 2018
... Canada, 2002). 10 On untelling as a necessary response to epistemic and material violence, see M. NourbeSe Philip, “ Zong! As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng ” (Toronto: Mercury, 2008), 194. 11 This chapter, aptly titled “Every Ancestor,” brings to mind and extends...
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Come and Gone

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Stephen Best
Small Axe (2015) 19 (3 (48)): 186–204.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-3341777
Published: 01 November 2015
..., and I would add that specific traumas have figured most prominently in this period—the Margaret Garner infanticide in which she killed her children rather than see them returned to slavery, or, as well, the massacre aboard the slave ship Zong in which Captain Luke Collingwood ordered that 132 slaves...
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