Zong! By Nourbese Philip and Transcript by Heimrad Backer

Zong! By Nourbese Philip's and Transcript by Heimrad Backer's

Introduction

The report mainly based on the comparison of two pieces of works i.e. Zong by Nourbese Philip's and Transcript by Heimrad Backer's. Zong is the recent poetry work of Nourbese Philip. The main theme of Zong is based on the legal issue that has been raised after the murder of African people on a board of the slave ship. Zong Massacre is an incident that happened with the African people and Nourbese Philip discusses the event through his poetry. Transcript discusses the Nazis Holocaust and the main causes of this event in relation with the bureaucratic world of Nazis are also discussed.

Comparison

Philip discusses the disaster of Zong Massacre that happened with the Africans through her poetry. However, the poetry of Backer is based on the Nazis Holocaust. Transcript discusses the holocaust refers to the systematic murder of persons deemed undesirable by Nazi Germany during World War II. Known as Hitler's “Final Solution,” this genocide campaign was responsible for the death of more than 6 million Jews, the single largest targeted group. In the postwar aftermath and to this day, the Holocaust has been a topic of debate that has included discussions of moral and political culpability, the founding of Israel, the prosecution of war criminals, restitution for victims, and revisionist history(Longerich 2010).

On the other hand, Zong's view point is on the British slave ship Zong set sail off the western coast of Africa, headed for the island of Jamaica. Under the command of Captain Luke Collingwood, the Zong began the Atlantic journey with 470 enslaved Africans and seventeen white seamen on board(Walvin 2011). By late November, however, as sickness and death spread throughout the ship, more than a dozen crew members and sixty Africans had died.

The relation of postscript to the language of National Socialism is complicated by baker's involvement as a teenager in the local leadership and press service of the Hitler Youth. Transcript refers to a baker book review (of a biography of Hitler) he wrote for a newspaper as a Linz Seventeen-year-old in 1942. This footnote reveals that, the language he aims to document was then, for a time, his language, and that the transcript is, among other things, to autobiographical text (Backer & Achleitner 2010).

The Zong case proved instrumental in rallying public sentiment around the growing abolitionist cause. News of the proceedings aroused the black community, who believed the incident should treated as a murder case. Philips Black abolitionist because she is from Canada and discusses the Black Olaudah Equiano forwarded information about the Zong incident to the white abolitionist lawyer Granville Sharp, who would gain both political capital and public notoriety from his involvement in the case because she serves as a lightning rod of black cultural defiance of the Canadian mainstream(Philip 2008). Sharp, at his own expense, employed a shorthand writer to take full note of the court proceedings, which he sent to the admiralty, bishops, ministers ...