Turner: New and Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Dabydeen, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1900715686 ISBN 13 : 9781900715683

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2002

Synopsis

David Dabydeen's Turner is a long narrative poem written in response to J. M. W. Turner's celebrated poem "Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying." Dabydeen's poem focuses on what is hidden in Turner's painting, the submerged head of the drowning African. In inventing a biography and the drowned man's unspoken desires, the poem brings into confrontation the wish for renewal and the inescapable stains of history, including the meaning of Turner's painting.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Dabydeen heads the Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick. He was born in Guyana, but has lived in the United Kingdom from his early youth. He is the author of the novels The Intended, Disappearance, The Counting House, A Harlot's Progress, and two earlier books of poetry, Slave Song, which won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, and Coolie Odyssey. He is recognized among the United Kingdom's finest writers. He is also the author of The Counting House, A Harlot's Progress, and Hogarth's Blacks: Images of Blacks in 18th Century English Art.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1900715686
• ISBN 13: 9781900715683
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 84
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• Personne responsable: non disponible