Kamau Brathwaite

Broschiertes Buch

Middlepassages

Poetry

Beschreibung

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."

Autor

Kamau Brathwaite (1930-2020) was a vitally important Caribbean poet and critic who wrote on the experience of Black cultural life throughout the worldwide African diaspora. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and educated in Barbados and England, Brathwaite received the Griffin Prize as well as Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. He was for many years a professor of Comparative Literature at New York University and awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Sussex in 2002.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 132mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 136g
• ISBN-13: 9780811212328
• ISBN-10: 0811212327
• Artikelnr.: 21236671