A Long-Memoried Sea: Locating Memory in the Middle Passage in Fred D’Aguiar’s “Feeding the Ghosts” (Sheryl Alexander)
Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs?Where is your tribal memory?Sirs, in that great vault.The sea. The sea has locked them up.The sea is History Derek Walcott, The Sea is History Dubbed as a historical revisionist novel, Feeding the Ghosts is Fred D’Aguiar’s fictionalized account of the infamous Zong slave-ship massacre, an incident where more …