The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite
The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite

Author: Emily A. Williams

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2004-11-30

Total Pages: 374

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While Kamau Brathwaite is renown for his achievements as a world literary, historical, and cultural critic, his Anglophone Caribbean poetry is the cornerstone of his legacy. His critically acclaimed trilogy, The Arrivants, which is composed of the individual volumes, Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands is analyzed along with many other poetic works. Also discussed within are his innovative and highly original literary techniques which have evolved during over forty years as a poet. This book is a collection of selected critical responses to volumes of Brathwaite's poetry written from the 1960s to 2000s. Organized by decades, it includes book reviews, articles, essays, and personal reflections. Also included is a recent interview with Brathwaite conducted by Williams in 2002. In this interview, Brathwaite has the opportunity to address his critics as he responds to his work holistically as well as specific volumes of his poetry and stylistic innovations. Anyone interested in Brathwaite's poetry will truly enjoy this work.

The Art of Kamau Brathwaite
The Art of Kamau Brathwaite

Author: Stewart Brown

Publisher: Seren Books

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 288

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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.

Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo
Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo

Author: Curwen Best

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9783039117161

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This book is the first comparative work of its kind to provide an extended analysis of the contribution of Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo. It considers the poetic works of these two artists as they responded to the transformations taking place within Africa and the Caribbean during the Independence period. Some of the issues discussed include: politics and art, religion, spirituality, traditional culture versus popular culture, language and identity, literature and orality, cyber-culture and identity. This book highlights some of the similarities and differences in the life and work of these two poets and examines various aspects of their style. It provides a clearer understanding of the stances these artists took on crucial issues that would shape the face of their respective societies way beyond the Independence period.

The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor
The Critical Response to Flannery O'Connor

Author: Douglas Robillard

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2004-12-30

Total Pages: 352

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With an emphasis on examining Flannery O'Connor's literary reputation during her lifetime, and the growth of that reputation after her death, this collection brings together fifty years of critical reactions to her work.

LX, the Love Axe/l
LX, the Love Axe/l

Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher:

Published: 2002-07

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780948833809

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At once a manifesto for a revolutionary Caribbean aesthetics, a composition of detailed literary analysis, and a scholarly documentation of a vital period in Caribbean history, this work is singular and indispensable. As a study of literary and cultural history, it deals not only with significant texts, but with the wider artistic, popular, and intellectual movements that were part of the profound revolution in Caribbean post-colonial consciousness.

The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry
The Facts on File Companion to World Poetry

Author: R. Victoria Arana

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1438108370

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The Facts On File Companion to World Poetry : 1900 to the Present is a comprehensive introduction to 20th and 21st-century world poets and their most famous, most distinctive, and most influential poems.

The Critical Response to Arthur Miller
The Critical Response to Arthur Miller

Author: Steven R. Centola

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 2006-05-30

Total Pages: 600

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Presents roughly sixty years' worth of Arthur Miller scholarship, offering a range of interpretations and critical responses to the playwright's work.

After Translation
After Translation

Author: Ignacio Infante

Publisher: Fordham Univ Press

Published: 2013-03

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0823251780

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Translation--from both a theoretical and practical point of view--articulates differing but interconnected modes of circulation in the work of writers originally from different geographical areas of transatlantic encounter, such as Europe, Latin America, North America, and the Caribbean. After Translation examines from a transnational perspective the various ways in which translation facilitates the circulation of modern poetry and poetics across the Atlantic. It rethinks the theoretical paradigm of Anglo-American "modernism" based on the transnational, interlingual and transhistorical features of the work of key modern poets writing at both sides of the Atlantic--namely, the Portuguese Fernando Pessoa; the Chilean Vicente Huidobro; the Spaniard Federico García Lorca; the San Francisco-based poets Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Robin Blaser; the Barbadian Kamau Brathwaite; and the Brazilian brothers Haroldo and Augusto de Campos.

Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations
Facts, Fiction, and African Creative Imaginations

Author: Toyin Falola

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-09-11

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1135212899

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This volume brings together insights from distinguished scholars from around the world to address the facts, fiction and creative imaginations in the pervasive portrayals of Africa, its people, societies and cultures in the literature and the media. The fictionalization of Africa and African issues in the media and the popular literature that blends facts and fiction has rendered perceptions of Africa, its cultures, societies, customs, and conflicts often superficial and deficient in the popular Western consciousness. The book brings eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines to sort out the persistent fictionalization of Africa, from facts pertaining to the genesis of powerful cultural, political or religious icons, the historical and cultural significance of "intriguing" customs (such as tribal marks), gender relations, causes of conflicts and African responses, and creative imaginations in contemporary African films, fiction and literature, among others.

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Author: Michael A. Bucknor

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-06-14

Total Pages: 690

ISBN-13: 1136821740

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This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.