Zong! - M. NourbeSe Philip (Wesleyan University Press) MIT Press she stopped working artistically -

she stopped working artistically - uncompromising

as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests

with an introduction by Emmett Williams

like her work itself

Zong! - M. NourbeSe Philip (Wesleyan University Press) MIT Press she stopped working artistically -Fifteenth anniversary edition, with a new preface by the author and contributions by Saidiya Hartman and Katherine McKittrick. A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry. In November 1781, the captain of the slave ship Zong ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ships owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision Gregson v. Gilbert the only extant public