Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Rohlehr, doyen of Caribbean critics, Glyne Griffith, Nathaniel Mackey from America, Ted Chamberlain from Canada, and Louis James, Anne Walmsley and Bridget Jones from Britain.
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite
Author: Stewart Brown
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Rohlehr, doyen of Caribbean critics, Glyne Griffith, Nathaniel Mackey from America, Ted Chamberlain from Canada, and Louis James, Anne Walmsley and Bridget Jones from Britain.
Publisher: Seren Books
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite won the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1994. The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is a ground-breaking book in which leading commentators on Black and Caribbean writing explore and discuss all aspects of Brathwaite's work as poet, historian, and cultural archivist. Brathwaite provides a 'proem' on cultural dislocation, and is the subject of an interview. The international list of contributors includes Gordon Rohlehr, doyen of Caribbean critics, Glyne Griffith, Nathaniel Mackey from America, Ted Chamberlain from Canada, and Louis James, Anne Walmsley and Bridget Jones from Britain.
DS (2)
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811216937
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The startling new work by internationally celebrated Caribbean poet, historian and cultural theorist Kamau Brathwaite, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.
Ancestors
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214483
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811214483
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Offers a revised edition of Brathwaite's Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X/Self poems which explore the author's family and childhood in Barbados and his experiences with slavery and colonialism.
Middle Passages
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811212328
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."
Black + Blues
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213134
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811213134
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
A collection of poems includes Fetish, Totem, Caliban, Springblade, Bread, Xango, and Koker.
Elegguas
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571008
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas—a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad—is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful, so that the ancestors may provide spiritual assistance and advice to those here on earth. The book is also profoundly political, including elegies for assassinated revolutionaries like in the masterful "Poem for Walter Rodney." Throughout his poetry, Brathwaite foregrounds "nation-language," that difference in syntax, in rhythm, and timbre that is most closely allied to the African experience in the Caribbean, using the computer to explore the graphic rendition of nuances of language. Brathwaite experiments using his own Sycorax fonts, as well as deliberate misspellings ("calibanisms") and deviations in punctuation. But this is never simple surface aesthetic, rather an expression of the turbulence (in history, in dream) depicted in the poems. This collection is a stunning follow-up to Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan, 2005), winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819571008
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Kamau Brathwaite is a major Caribbean poet of his generation and one of the major world poets of the second half of the twentieth century. Elegguas—a play on "elegy" and "Eleggua," the Yoruba deity of the threshold, doorway, and crossroad—is a collection of poems for the departed. Modernist and post-modernist in inspiration, Elegguas draws together traditions of speaking with the dead, from Rilke's Duino Elegies to the Jamaican kumina practice of bringing down spirits of the dead to briefly inhabit the bodies of the faithful, so that the ancestors may provide spiritual assistance and advice to those here on earth. The book is also profoundly political, including elegies for assassinated revolutionaries like in the masterful "Poem for Walter Rodney." Throughout his poetry, Brathwaite foregrounds "nation-language," that difference in syntax, in rhythm, and timbre that is most closely allied to the African experience in the Caribbean, using the computer to explore the graphic rendition of nuances of language. Brathwaite experiments using his own Sycorax fonts, as well as deliberate misspellings ("calibanisms") and deviations in punctuation. But this is never simple surface aesthetic, rather an expression of the turbulence (in history, in dream) depicted in the poems. This collection is a stunning follow-up to Brathwaite's Born to Slow Horses (Wesleyan, 2005), winner of the Griffin International Poetry Prize.
Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966897609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Literary Criticism. African American and Caribbean Studies. Kamau Brathwiate's CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his discussion with Nathaniel Mackey at Poet's House in New York City. Brathwaite expansively elaborates on Mackey's (and audience member's) knowledgeable inquiries; his answers are layered with subsequent ruminations arising from his lifelong engagement with world literature and expressive cultures. A multiphasic drift, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines elements of biography and autobiography with poetic discourse on Caribbean literary history and negative effects of colonial domination. Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry, criticism, and instrictive imaginary voices in his now distinct and characteristic Sycorax 'video style' format. Both Brathwaite and Mackey have several titles carried by SPD. Mackey's ERODING WITNESS is newly available, along with WHATSAID SERIF (City Lights) and DJOBOT BAGHOSTUS'S RUN (Sun & Moon) Brathwaite's BLAC
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780966897609
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Literary Criticism. African American and Caribbean Studies. Kamau Brathwiate's CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY is based on the transcript of his discussion with Nathaniel Mackey at Poet's House in New York City. Brathwaite expansively elaborates on Mackey's (and audience member's) knowledgeable inquiries; his answers are layered with subsequent ruminations arising from his lifelong engagement with world literature and expressive cultures. A multiphasic drift, CONVERSATIONS WITH NATHANIEL MACKEY combines elements of biography and autobiography with poetic discourse on Caribbean literary history and negative effects of colonial domination. Brathwaite splices dialog with poetry, criticism, and instrictive imaginary voices in his now distinct and characteristic Sycorax 'video style' format. Both Brathwaite and Mackey have several titles carried by SPD. Mackey's ERODING WITNESS is newly available, along with WHATSAID SERIF (City Lights) and DJOBOT BAGHOSTUS'S RUN (Sun & Moon) Brathwaite's BLAC
X/self
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
These poems trace Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry. Gives the reader what is effectively an account of the African diaspora, in the language of a great poet.
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
These poems trace Brathwaite's African/Caribbean ancestry. Gives the reader what is effectively an account of the African diaspora, in the language of a great poet.
History of the Voice
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher: London : New Beacon Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Publisher: London : New Beacon Books
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
Caribbean Culture
Author: Kamau Brathwaite
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The book presents a representative selection of the papers presented at the second Conference on Caribbean Culture in honour of Kamau Brathwaite.