Kamau Brathwaite

The Arrivants (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A major landmark of 20th-century Caribbean poetry. Those who lament that the Age of Giants is over have evidently never read Kamau Brathwaite (Eliot Weinberger).

Here, in a single volume, is Kamau Brathwaite's early groundbreaking trilogy The Arrivantscontaining Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Islands (1969)a brilliant and visionary exploration of the predicament of the poet living in the New World. Through the tension of regional dialect, musical rhythms, historical flashbacks, and excursions to Europe, New York, and Africa, Brathwaite interweaves the past and present of his Caribbean homelandits natural beauty, its violent history, and the values that sustain its peopleinto a vigorous and unforgettable poetic work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780811240550
• Artikelnr.: 75601376

Autorenporträt

Kamau Brathwaite was born in Barbados in 1930. Co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement, Brathwaite has received numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and the Casa de las Americas Prize. He is currently a professor of comparative literature at New York University, and shares his time between CowPastor, Barbados, and New York City.