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.

Ancestors
Ancestors

Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780811214483

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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.

Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit

Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781845233082

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"In its title, Strange Fruit refers to the song of a lynching made famous by Billie Holiday and to the malign persecution that drove Kamau Brathwaite from his New York home to resettlement in his native Barbados. But the title also points to the enigma of beauty created out of that experience of cultural lynching, in poems of urgency, elegance, wisdom and brave humour. ... It is a collection full of beauties of form, phrase and sound, such as in the poem “Sleep Widow” where instead of finding comfort, the poet and loved woman “bull-fight like lock-horm logga-head until the evening pools the grief along our edges/ and cools us to this peace”, the very sounds in the poem fighting their way towards resolution."--Back cover.

The Arrivants
The Arrivants

Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1973-01-01

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9780192811547

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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.

Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey
Conversations with Nathaniel Mackey

Author: Kamau Brathwaite

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 9780966897609

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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