MiddlePassages (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Kamau Brathwaite
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Social action, Language or languages, Africa or Africans, Caribbean, Politics, Slavery or slaves, Social issues, Immigration or emigration, Violence, Death or dying, Guns
The awarding of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature to Derek Walcott helped bring poetry of the Caribbean region to world attention. Readers of Kamau Brathwaite did, however, detect a downside to this news. While Walcott’s own achievements in poetry are certainly worthy of recognition, and while the attention given to him may have helped to shine a little more light on other literature of the region, Walcott was a decidedly safer choice for the award than the equally worthy Brathwaite would have been, if only because Walcott generally sticks to the conventions of standard written...
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