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M NourbeSe Philip is congratulated by Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchez

Zong!

Zong!

Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?

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A brash, unsettling book, Zong! wants to chant or shout history down, shut history up… Fretful, possessed, obsessed, upset, curse and homeopathy, both, it visits a breathtaking run of glossolalic scat upon historical trauma.” Nathaniel Mackay. Can a collective performance of NourbeSe’s poem of black life as it exceeds containment enact alternative forms of selfhood that emerge in and out of African diasporic experience?

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8 images, 1 video, 1 audio
Audio Recording
CC BY- ND 4.0
M NourbSe Philip addresses an audience with arms open

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Some of the performers at Episode 4 give NourbeSe a hug after the performance

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

M NourbeSe Philip faces the camera with a direct gaze in front of a brick wall

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

M NourbSe Philip addresses an audience with arms open

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

The audience at the Zong! performance read out loud from the poem

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

Some of the performers at Episode 4 give NourbeSe a hug after the performance

▴ Credit: Alex Woodward

M NourbeSe Philip faces the camera with a direct gaze in front of a brick wall

▴ Credit: Bryony McIntyre

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