X/Self (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Kamau Brathwaite
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Poetic sequence
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric sequence
- Subjects: African Americans, Culture, Caribbean, Blacks, Colonialism, Slavery or slaves, Europe or Europeans, Native Americans or American Indians, Women, Brazil or Brazilians, South Africa or South Africans, Exploration or explorers, Holy Roman Empire
The Poem
X/Self is a book-length work divided into five parts, which are further divided into individual, closely connected poems. The thematic and stylistic connection among these shorter poems is so strong that the work is best thought of as a single, unified poem. As such, it is also the final third of a larger sequence that Edward Brathwaite began with the publication of Mother Poem (1977), continued in Sun Poem (1982), and concluded in X/Self.
The title of the poem has a complex meaning. The figure of an “X” within the poem implies...
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