Kamau Brathwaite (1930–2020)
Forfatter af The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
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Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) was an internationally celebrated poet, performer, and cultural theorist. He won numerous awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the Griffin Poetry Prize. A retired professor of comparative literature at New York University, Brathwaite vis mere lived in CowPastor, Barbados. vis mindre
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Værker af Kamau Brathwaite
Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926U7 September 1986 (Wisconsin Studies in Autobiography) (1993) 18 eksemplarer
History of the Voice: Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1984) 17 eksemplarer
Jah music 3 eksemplarer
Days & nights 2 eksemplarer
Soweto 1 eksemplar
Jerry Ward & the fragmented spaceship dreamstory 1 eksemplar
Los Danzantes del Tiempo 1 eksemplar
Magical Realism (MR) 1 eksemplar
"Limits" 1 eksemplar
“Calypso” 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Bidragyder — 93 eksemplarer
The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Another English: Anglophone Poems from Around the World (Poets in the World) (2014) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
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- Juridisk navn
- Braithwaite, Edward Kamau
- Andre navne
- Braithwaite, Lawson Edward (birth)
Braithwaite, Kamau - Fødselsdato
- 1930-05-11
- Dødsdag
- 2020-02-04
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Barbados
- Fødested
- Bridgetown, Barbados
- Dødssted
- Cow Pasture, Barbados
- Bopæl
- Gold Coast (now Ghana)
Cambridge, England, UK
St Lucia, Jamaica
Kingston, Jamaica
London, England, UK
Nairobi, Kenya (vis alle 8)
New York, New York, USA
Cow Pasture, Barbados - Uddannelse
- Harrison College, Barbados
University of Cambridge (Pembroke College) (BA)
University of Sussex (PhD) - Erhverv
- poet
education officer
playwright
historian
teacher
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- 57
- Sprog
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- Udvalgt
- 3
Firstly, my review of the 60 page selection of Alan Bold's poems: no. 1*
Next, the 50 page selection of Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite's poems from his first three books Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands, had a few good lines but on the whole they didn't make me want to re-read any further into his works. 3*
From The Emigrants: "In London, Undergrounds are cold.
The train rolls in from darkness
with our fears."
From South: "And gulls, their white sails slanted seaward,
fly into the limitless morning before us."
Lastly, the 50 page selection of Edwin Morgan's poems: YES. 5*… (mere)