Reading the painterly text: Clarence Major's "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage.".

From: African American Review | Date: June 22, 1999| Author: Selzer, Linda Furgerson | Copyright information

The modernist poem "The Slave Trade: View from the Middle Passage" by Clarence Major is a devastating attack on the discourse of empire and the practice of slavery. The work offers a subtle analysis of the difficulties which are internal in the process of creating a social identity with the use of art. The poetry offers a painterly collage of historical, literary, and philosophical allusions, street talk, cartoons, puns, folklores and children' songs

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