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~ Fall 2001 ~ Susan Tichy
Week 6: Oct 1:
Speaking For / Speaking
In History: Kamau Brathwaite
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Exam #1 due at start
of class
Core
Reading: Poems:
Kamau
Brathwaite:
The
Arrivants. Our discussion will focus on the last section, "The Islands"
Poems
handed out in class
Core
Reading: Interviews & Secondary:
Read
all of these:
Copy
Shop:
Brathwaite:
from ConVERSations with Nathaniel Mackey pp 28-57
June
Bobb: “Reconceiving Self and World,” from Beating a Restless Drum
Web:
George
Mason University Libraries: Expanded Academic ASAP
If you
have not previously used this database, you must access it on campus or
via your GMU account from off-campus. Start on the GMU library main page,
choose Databases, then scroll down to Expanded Academic ASAP. Using the
keyword “Brathwaite,” find the following:
Nathaniel
Mackey:
Wringing the Word. World Literature Today, Autumn 1994 v68 n4 p733(8)
[Note:
I used this essay to structure the choice of readings from Brathwaite’s
rather extended work, so it is essential that you find and read this essay.
If you are unable to use Academic ASAP plese ask a classmate to print a
copy for you -- or ask me for a hard copy.
Additional Sources:
Web:
MAP
Web:
Claude McKay>
WePress
site w/ Links to Brathwaite information
A Comparative
Literature honors thesis from Oberlin College: Barry
Eidlin: Crossed Wires, Noisy Signals: Language, Identity, and Resistance
in Caribbean Literature. (Unfortunately no mention of Brathwaite,
but good for context.)
Additional Sources:
Reserve Desk:
Laurence
Breiner: An Introduction to West Indian Poetry.
Cambridge UP, 1998.
An
excellent introduction to the history and to the cultural and aesthetic
issues of West Indian Anglophone poetry. Sets the context of French and
Spanish poetry of the region (including a capsule history of the Negritude
poets), narrates the historical development of poetry in English, then
discusses relations with “Africa,” “Europe,” and “America” in both their
historical and methaphysical aspects. Has good material on Brathwaite.
Also includes a chronology of West Indian poets and poetry. Some reading
from this book may be assigned.
The
Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in English. Ed. Paula Burnett.
London: Penguin, 1986.
An
influential anthology with sections of work from the oral and literary
traditions. The introduction is an extraordinarily detailed history of
Anglophone poetry in the region.
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