Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. African & African American Studies. "An important new work of world literature... an ambitious book."--Xu Xi "BOOK OF THE DEAD risks a new kind of pan-Caribbean poetry. It is not merely that it reaches into the entire region's space and history. Its verse plays with the whole Caribbean language spectrum: here fragments in Spanish, there across the Afro-English spectrum, to scraps of French, Dutch, Haitian, and Papiamento. Sekou weaves a world of Antillean thought around ...
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Poetry. Caribbean Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. African & African American Studies. "An important new work of world literature... an ambitious book."--Xu Xi "BOOK OF THE DEAD risks a new kind of pan-Caribbean poetry. It is not merely that it reaches into the entire region's space and history. Its verse plays with the whole Caribbean language spectrum: here fragments in Spanish, there across the Afro-English spectrum, to scraps of French, Dutch, Haitian, and Papiamento. Sekou weaves a world of Antillean thought around his anchorage in St. Martin."--Richard Drayton, King's College London
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Add this copy of Book of the Dead to cart. $87.05, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hialeah, FL, UNITED STATES, published 2016 by House of Nehesi Publishers.
