Edward Kamau Brathwaite

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Creation in the Poetic Development of Kamau Brathwaite, in World Literature Today
by H. H. Anniah Gowda. 6 pgs.

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The Trials of Authenticity in Kamau Brathwaite, in World Literature Today
by Silvio Torres-Saillant. 11 pgs.

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The African Imagination: Literature in Africa & the Black Diaspora (Chap. 8 "Return of the Native: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks")
by F. Abiola Irele. 296 pgs.

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This collection of essays by one of Africa's leading scholars examines African literary traditions in the broad sense, and places the work of individual authors in context. Here F. Abiola Irele presents probing critical readings of the works of Chinua Achebe, Kamau Brathwaite, Amadou Hapae Ba, and Amadou Kourouma, among others. In addition to discussing texts central to the evolving canon of African literature, The African Imagination addresses both the growing presence of African writing in the global literary marketplace and the relationship between African intellectuals and the West.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

The African Imagination

1: The African Imagination

2: Orality, Literacy, and African Literature

3: The Making of a Tradition

4: Dimensions of African Discourse

5: Amadou Hampaté Bâ's the Fortunes of Wangrin

6: Ahmadou Kourouma's Monnè, Outrages et Défis

7: The Crisis of Cultural Memory in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart

8: Edward Kamau Brathwaite's Masks

9: The Poetry and Plays of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

10: The New Realism in African Fiction

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Black Imagination and the Middle Passage (Chap. 5 "Landings: Robert Hayden's and Kamau Brathwaite's Poetic Renderings of the Middle Passage in Comparative Perspective")
by Maria Diedrich, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Carl Pedersen. 320 pgs.

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This volume of essays examines the forced dispossession of the Middle Passage through the texts, religious rites, economic exchanges, dance and music it elicited, both on the liminal transatlantic journey and on the continent and eventual return. As a whole this collection establishes a broad topographical and temporal context for the Passage that extends from the interior of Africa across the Atlantic and to the interior of the Americas, and from the time of the Middle Passage to the present day. A collective narrative of itinerant cultural consciousness as represented in histories, myth and arts, these contributions reconceptualize the meaning of the Middle Passage for African American history and fiction.

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Prologue

1: The Middle Passage between History and Fiction Introductory Remarks

Part I: Voyage through Death . . .

2: Patterns in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1662-1867

3: The Slave Ship Dance

4: The (De-)Construction of the "Other" in the Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

5: Landings

6: . . . . the Poetics of Abjection in Beloved

7: Surviving through a Pattern of Timeless Moments

Part II: . . . to Life upon These Shores

8: Dislocation, Violence, and the Language of Sentiment

9: The Color of Money

10: Judicial Nullification

11: Africa in South Carolina

References

12: The Persistence of Tradition

13: The African American Concept of the Fantastic as Middle Passage

Part III: In Africa, There Are No Niggers

14: The Enigma of the Return

15: The Hues and Uses of Liberia

16: Voyage into the Heart of Africa

17: African Americans in Africa

18: Sexual Violence and the Black Atlantic

19: Alice Walker, Activist

20: Passages to Identity

21: Return Passages Maryse Condé Brings Tituba Back to Barbados

22: Mediterranean Passage

Epilogue: Transatlantic Passages Revisited, Tenerife

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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture (Chap. 13 "A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity")
by Rowland Smith. 216 pgs.

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Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1: Postcolonial /Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference

2: Proximities: from Asymptote to Zeugma

3: Looking in from "Beyond]: Commonwealth Studies in French Universities

4: Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent

5: Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Métissage in Breyten Breyten Bach's Return to Paradise

6: Inheritance in Question: the Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction

7: Natal Women's Letters in the 1850s: Ellen Mcleod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and "Second- World] Ambi/Valence

8: Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo's and They Didn't Die

9: Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age

10: Fas and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women?

11: Can Rohinton Mistry's Realism Rescue the Novel?

12: Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame

13: A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity

14: Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry

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Deconstruction, Imperialism and the West Indian Novel ("Edward Kamau Brathwaite and Nation Language" begins on p. 11)
by Glyne A. Griffith. 152 pgs.

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Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter One: Metaphysics and the Other: Eurocentricity and Its Contradictions

Chapter Two: Discourse and the West Indian Novel: Imperialist Stereotypes And West Indian Narrative

Chapter Three: Metaphysics And Materialism: Wilson Harris And V. S. Naipaul

Chapter Four: Narrative Strategies And The Construction Of Selfhood: Roger Mais and John Hearne

Chapter Five: Deconstructing Stereotypes: Jean Rhys And Earl Lovelace

Chapter Six: Afterword

Notes: Where Original and Reprint Publication Data Are Given in the Notes Page Citations Are to the Reprint Edition

Bibliography

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Who's Got History? Kamau Brathwaite's "Gods of the Middle Passage", in World Literature Today
by Joan Dayan. 7 pgs.

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Long Memory and Survival: Dramatizing the Arrivants Trilogy, in World Literature Today
by Abena P. A. Busia. 6 pgs.

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Wordsongs and Wordwounds/Homecoming: Kamau Brathwaite's Barabajan Poems, in World Literature Today
by Elaine Savory. 8 pgs.

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Jazz in the Caribbean Air, in World Literature Today
by Norman Weinstein. 4 pgs.

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Dream Journeys, in World Literature Today
by Gordon Rohlehr. 10 pgs.

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Publishing Brathwaite: Adventures in the Video Style, in World Literature Today
by Graeme Rigby. 7 pgs.

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Fifty Caribbean Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook ("Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930-)" begins on p. 58)
by Daryl Cumber Dance. 532 pgs.

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"Even when available elsewhere, information on these 50 English-language authors is sparse; the in-depth treatment here includes biography, description of major works and themes, summary of critical reception, and an exhaustive bibliography of works by and about each author. Both academic and public libraries will want to accept this invitation to another world." Library Journal

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COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Phyllis Shand Allfrey (1915)

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Michael Anthony (1932)

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Lindsay Barrett (1941)

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Louise Bennett (1919)

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Dionne Brand (1953)

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Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930)

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Erna Brodber (1940)

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Wayne Vincent Brown (1944)

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Jan Carew (1925)

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Martin Wylde Carter (1927)

Austin Clarke (1934)

Frank Collymore (1893-1980)

O. R. Dathorne (1934)

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Neville Dawes (1926-1984)

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Reinhard W. Sander Ralph de Boissiére (1907)

Jean D'Costa (1937)

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Herbert George de Lisser (1878-1944)

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John Joseph Maria Figueroa (1920)

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Wilson Harris (1921)

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John Hearne (1926)

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Roy A. K. Heath (1926)

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Frank E. M. Hercules (1917)

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Merle Hodge (1944)

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C. L. R. James (1901)

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Marion Patrick Jones (1934)

Ismith Khan (1925)

Jamaica Kincaid (1949)

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George Lamming (1927)

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Earl Lovelace (1935)

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Claude McKay (1889-1948)

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Anthony McNeill (1941)

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Roger Mais (1905-1955)

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Alfred H. Mendes (1897)

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Edgar Mittelholzer (1909-1965)

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Mervyn Morris (1937)

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V. S. Naipaul (1932)

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Orlando Patterson (1940)

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Vic Reid (1911)

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Jean Rhys (1890-1979)

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Garth St. Omer (1931)

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Andrew Salkey (1928)

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Dennis Scott (1939)

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Samuel Dickson Selvon (1923)

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A. J. Seymour (1914)

Michael Thelwell (1939)

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Derek Walcott (1930)

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Eric Walrond (1898-1966)

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Denis Williams (1923)

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Francis Williams (1700-1770)

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Sylvia Wynter (1928)

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