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X-WR-CALNAME:SLE Salon: David Palumbo-Liu on Zong!: a haunting lifeline bet
 ween archive and memory\, law and poetry.
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DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome David Palumbo-Liu to the SLE Salon.  Zong
 ! is NourbeSe Philip’s book length poem published by Weslyan University 
 Press\, and by The Mercury Press in Canada. This extended 182 page poetry 
 cycle is composed entirely from the words of the case report\, Gregson vs.
  Gilbert\, related to the murder of Africans on board a slave ship at the 
 end of the eighteenth century. Professor David Palumbo Liu will introduce 
 the poem and lead a discussion on it.\n\nThe case report Gregson vs. Gilbe
 rt\, recounts the massacre by drowning of some 130 enslaved Africans over 
 the course of ten days beginning on November 29th\, 1781. The captain of t
 he eponymous slave ship\, Zong\, having made many navigational errors resu
 lting in extending the length of the voyage from West Africa to Jamaica or
 dered the Africans be thrown overboard so as to allow the owners of the sh
 ip\, the Gregsons\, to claim indemnity from their insurers\, the Gilberts.
  When the insurers refused to honour the contract of insurance\, the ship
 ’s owners initiated legal action against them\, which proved to be succe
 ssful. Upon appeal\, however\, the insurers\, the Gilberts were granted a 
 new trial. The report of that hearing\, Gregson vs Gilbert constitutes the
  only extant\, public document related to the massacre. Through fugal and 
 counterpointed strategies\, Zong! explodes the coded\, documented silence 
 of the historical text to become an anti-narrative lament that tells the s
 tory of this haunting and tragic massacre: it cannot be told yet must be t
 old\; it can only be told by not telling.\n\nFunding for SLE Salons is pro
 vided by VPUE's Academic-Residential Co-Curriculum (ARC).
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LOCATION:Florence Moore Hall\, SLE Main Lounge
SUMMARY:SLE Salon: David Palumbo-Liu on Zong!: a haunting lifeline between 
 archive and memory\, law and poetry.
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