Used words
"
Walcott
utilises
religious
Christian
imagery
to
delineate
that
the
Anglo-Christian
Genesis
cannot
be
of
enslaved
and
it
will
not
found
written
but
in
biological
matter
itself.
Much
like
Davis’
‘southscapes’
ocean
acts
as
an
in-between
space
which
“memory
reconstructs
historiographical
omissions
retrieves
their
stories
from
abyssal
depths
oblivion.”
Therefore
enslaved’s
“Babylonian
bondage”
(line
19)
does
end
with
a
parting
seas
“lantern
caravel”
only
leads
many
deaths
making
sea
mass
grave
7).
Thus
there
are
no
markers
“...
men
eyes
heavy
anchors
who
sank
without
tombs.”
Instead
constantly
destructive
generative
force
“then
came
scum
on
river's
drying
lip
/
brown
reeds
villages
mantling
congealing
into
towns.”
“The
sea
perpetually
heaving
moving
disturbing
is
always
force
poem.
What
generates–scum
barnacles
cowries–are
material
pieces
evidence
merely
geographic
literary
cultural
sociological
one
well.”
Seanna
Sumalee
Oakley
explores
allegory
well
middle
passage
Alcott’s
work
stating
his
“typology
neither
counters
nor
rejects
tradition
flaunts
its
inventive
revision
while
implying
foreshortened
reach
traditions
indissolubly
linked.”
Drawing
De
Man
designates
language
relation
distance
between
“nostalgia
desire
coincide”
origin.
‘self’
realised
this
temporal
difference
attempts
hide
“negative
self
knowledge”.
Nevertheless
African
Atlantic
cultures
both
distinctly
related
history
erased
it
therefore
“African
portrayals
are
‘divided
vein.’”"
Create your own