The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite

by Williams, Emily Allen

• ISBN13: 9780275979577
• ISBN10: 0275979571
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-11-30
• Publisher: Praeger Pub Text

Summary

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.

Author Biography

EMILY ALLEN WILLIAMS is Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Morehouse College. She is also the author of Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001: An Annotated Bibliography (Praeger, 2002).

Table of Contents

Chronology	xiii
Introduction	xix
1960s Poetry
Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), Islands (1969)
Rights of Passage
Edward Baugh (1967)/Review	1	(3)
Blues and Rebellion: Edward Brathwaite's Rights of Passage
Gordon Rohlehr (1978)/Article	4	(11)
E. K. Brathwaite and the Poetics of the Voice: The Allegory of History in Rights of Passage
Simon Gikandi (1991)/Article	15	(10)
Masks
Edward Baugh (1968)/Review	25	(4)
Patterns of Communication in Edward Brathwaite's Masks
Micere Githae Mugo (1978)/Article	29	(5)
Islands
Gerald Moore (1970)/Review	34	(5)
The Death and Rebirth of African Deities in Edward Brathwaite's Islands
Funso Aiyejina (1984)/Article	39	(8)
Christianity in Islands -- An Introduction
Kwame Dawes (1986)/Article	47	(6)
The Meaning of Religious Metaphor in Edward Brathwaite's Islands
Maureen Warner-Lewis (1986)/Article	53	(12)
1970s Poetry
The Arrivants (1973), Black + Blues (1976), Mother Poem (1977)
Edward Brathwaite's Symbolic Use of Water Imagery in The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy
William Connor (1980)/Article	65	(6)
The Search for Identity in Edward Brathwaite's The Arrivants
John Povey (1987)/Article	71	(16)
The Image of the Pebble in Brathwaite's Arrivants
Pamela Mordecai (1989)/Article	87	(15)
Songs of the Skeleton: Edward Brathwaite's Black + Blues, Part Three
Gordon Rohlehr (1986)/Article	102	(17)
What Did I Do To Get So Black and Blue?
Keith Tuma (1996)/Review	119	(4)
Mother Poem
Mark McWatt (1977)/Review	123	(4)
Sexual Politics in Edward Brathwaite's Mother Poem and Sun Poem
Sue Thomas (1987)/Article	127	(10)
1980s Poetry
Sun Poem (1982), Jah Music (1986), The Visibility Trigger (1986), X/Self (1987)
Sun Poem: The Rainbow Sign?
Stewart Brown (1995)/Article	137	(10)
Megalleons of Light: Edward [Kamau] Brathwaite's Sun Poem
Gordon Rohlehr (1992)/Article	147	(15)
The Visibility Trigger and Jah Music
Michael Dash (1987)/Review	162	(3)
The Other West Indian Poet (X/Self)
Laurence Breiner (1989)/Review	165	(4)
The Afro-Caribbean Crossroads (X/Self)
Louis James (1987)/Review	169	(2)
A Rich Plural Heritage As A Tool For Survival
Anthony Kellman (1988)/Review	171	(4)
1990s Poetry
Middle Passages (1992), Barabajan Poems (1994)
Middle Passages
Cyril Dabydeen (1993)/Review	175	(2)
His Island's Voice (Middle Passages)
Michael Parker (1992)/Review	177	(2)
Middle Passages
A. L. McLeod (1993)/Review	179	(1)
Middle Passages
Albert Mobilio (1994)/Review	180	(2)
Sunken Treasure
Kathryn Thomas (1994)/Review	182	(3)
Wordsongs & Wordwounds/Homecoming: Kamau Brathwaite's Barabajan Poems
Elaine Savory (1996)/Article	185	(12)
K/Ka/Kam/Kama/Kamau: Brathwaite's Project of Self-Naming in Barabajan Poems
Rhonda Cobham-Sander (2001)/Article	197	(16)
2000s Poetry
Words Need Love Too (2000), Ancestors (2001)
Giving Life A Tongue: Kamau Brathwaite's Words Need Love Too
June D. Bobb (2001)/Review	213	(3)
Words Need Love Too
Kwame Dawes (2002)/Review	216	(3)
The Wordsmith At Work With Words
Simone A. James Alexander (2003)/Review	219	(3)
Ancestors
Keith Mitchell (2001)/Review	222	(2)
Ancestors
Jeff Zaleski (2001)/Review	224	(1)
Ancestors and Words Need Love Too
Aldon Lynn Nielsen (2002)/Review	225	(8)
Recreating the Self: The Mother of Self In(ter)vention
Simone A. James Alexander (2003)/Review	233	(4)
Reflections of a Life
Highway to Vision: This Sea Our Nexus
Mary E. Morgan (1994)/Article	237	(13)
Publishing Brathwaite: Adventures in the Video-Style
Graeme Rigby (1994)/Article	250	(14)
Poetry As Ritual: Reading Kamau Brathwaite
Edward Baugh (1998)/Article	264	(7)
A Birthday Letter for Kamau
Anne Walmsley (2000)/Air-Mail Letter	271	(4)
Kamau Brathwaite
Mervyn Morris (2000)/Personal Recollection	275	(6)
Kamau Brathwaite: A Heartfelt Memoir
John La Rose (2001)/Personal Recollection	281	(7)
Edward Kamau Brathwaite: Enfant Terrible or Kindred Spirit? A Personal Commentary
Rex Nettleford (2001)/Personal Recollection	288	(6)
Interview
Kamau Brathwaite Talks With Emily Allen Williams About Four Decades of Critical Response (November 2002)	294	(21)
Selected Bibliography	315	(6)
Index	321