Marlene NourbeSe Philip
Trinidadian-Canadian writer, poet, essayist and lawyer whose work addresses colonialism, language, race and memory; known for the poetry collections She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989) and Zong! (2008).
Books
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1. Zong!
A book-length, formally experimental work that reconstructs the 1781 atrocity in which enslaved Africans were thrown from a ship and the subsequent insurance trial, using fragmented, documentary, and poetic language to interrogate how law, archives, and rhetoric erase suffering. Through repetition, found texts, and disjunctive syntax it gives voice to the drowned, exposes complicity, and demands ethical and historical reckoning with the violence of slavery and the limits of language to contain it.
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