{"product_id":"zong","title":"Zong!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“This song . . . is a lament for the millions gone and for what lives on. \u003ci\u003eZong! \u003c\/i\u003eis desecration and elegy. It is the song of an untold story, a story not to be passed on, a contrapuntal fugue in which we listen for the dead.” —Saidiya Hartman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November 1781, the captain of the slave ship \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eZong\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ordered that some 150 Africans be murdered by drowning so that the ship’s owners could collect insurance monies. Relying entirely on the words of the legal decision \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGregson v. Gilbert\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e―the only extant public document related to the massacre―\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eZong!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e tells the story that cannot be told yet must be told. Equal parts song, moan, shout, oath, ululation, curse, and chant, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eZong!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e excavates the legal text. Memory, history, and law collide and metamorphose into the poetics of the fragment. Through the innovative use of fugal and counterpointed repetition, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eZong!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ebecomes an anti-narrative lament that stretches the boundaries of the poetic form, haunting the spaces of forgetting and mourning the forgotten.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"\u003econdition\u003c\/span\u003e: good, some underlining and a few very light annotations throughout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e50% of profit from all used books will go toward purchasing food, clothes, hygiene kits, and other essentials for our unhoused neighbors in Southern California\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"M. NourbeSe Philip","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50546778079425,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/5464\/2881\/files\/IMG_0492.jpg?v=1788151672","url":"https:\/\/www.straybooks.co\/products\/zong","provider":"Stray Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}