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- Title
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER'S AMISTAD: Reading the Black History Poem through the Archive.
- Authors
Walters, Wendy W.
- Abstract
The article offers poetry criticism of the poem "Amistad" by Elizabeth Alexander. It explores how the poem illustrates the genre of the history poem to represent issues of language and translation, that are central to the freedom of the Africans. It also examines how the poem speaks from several perspectives, encompassing different legal and national discourses that defined the rebellion, both for its participants and for the public.
- Subjects
AMISTAD (Poem); ALEXANDER, Elizabeth, 1962-; POETRY (Literary form); CRITICISM; FICTION genres
- Publication
Callaloo, 2010, Vol 33, Issue 4, p1041
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2010.0073