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A review by bibliosol
Zong! by M. NourbeSe Philip
4.0
I think it's about time to write my first book review on here, and this is a good one to begin with.
I read this book for a capstone class on postcolonial women writers, and I'm glad that I read it despite the frustration I felt while reading it. I'm giving it four stars because of the creativity of this text which gives the reader an experience, not a novel. That's something I can get behind, even if this was a challenging read.
If you're working on this book, I recommend listening to a live reading so you can keep some of that in your mind while you read it yourself. After that, your should literally read it aloud to yourself--it's so helpful. That's because this text begs to be a performance (which it actually was before it was written). Furthermore, it falls less into the novel genre and more into the affective text genre (yep, *A*ffective, not effective). It should therefore make you feel something (like, actually experience certain emotions) when you read it. I think that this text seeks to emulate the frustrating, confusing, fearful, shameful, and painful experiences of those who were involved in the event the book describes upon the ship Zong.
I read this book for a capstone class on postcolonial women writers, and I'm glad that I read it despite the frustration I felt while reading it. I'm giving it four stars because of the creativity of this text which gives the reader an experience, not a novel. That's something I can get behind, even if this was a challenging read.
If you're working on this book, I recommend listening to a live reading so you can keep some of that in your mind while you read it yourself. After that, your should literally read it aloud to yourself--it's so helpful. That's because this text begs to be a performance (which it actually was before it was written). Furthermore, it falls less into the novel genre and more into the affective text genre (yep, *A*ffective, not effective). It should therefore make you feel something (like, actually experience certain emotions) when you read it. I think that this text seeks to emulate the frustrating, confusing, fearful, shameful, and painful experiences of those who were involved in the event the book describes upon the ship Zong.