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EDWARD KAMAU BRATHWAITE (1930 - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

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• Anthologies:
  • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993. 
• Selected Individual Works:
  • The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986.  Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1993.
  • "History, the Caribbean Writer, and X/Self."  Crisis and Creativity in the New Literatures in English.  Ed. Geoffrey Davies and Hena Maes-Jelinek.  Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990.  23-36.
  • "Caribbean Culture: Two Paradigms."  Missile and Capsule.  Ed. Jurgen Martini.  Bremen: Universitat Bremen, 1983.  9-54.
  • History of the Voice: the Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry.  Lecture, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, 1979.  Pub. London: New Beacon Books, 1984. 
    • "Nation Language."  Post-colonial Studies Reader.  Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.  London: Routledge, 1995.  309-313.
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  259-304.
  • "Resistance Poems: the Voice of Martin Carter."  Caribbean Quarterly 23.2-3 (1977): 7-23.
  • Wars of Respect: Nanny, Sam Sharpe and the Struggle for People's Liberation.  1977.
  • "The Love Axe (1): Developing a Caribbean Aesthetic, 1962-1974."  Reading Black: Essays in the Criticism of African, Caribbean, and Black American Literature.  Africana Studies and Research Center Monograph Series, no. 4.  Ed. Houston A. Baker.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1976.  20-35.
  • Caribbean Man in Space and Time.  1974
  • Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean.  Mona: Savacou, 1974.
  • "Race and the Divided Self."  Caribbean Studies 14.3 (1974): 127-139.
  • The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820.  Oxford : Clarendon, 1971.
    • "Creolisation in Jamaica."  Post-colonial Studies Reader.  Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin.  London: Routledge, 1995.  202-204.
  • "The African Presence in Caribbean Literature."  Lecture, Centre for Multi-Racial Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, February 1970. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  190-258.
    • Slavery Colonialism, and Racism.  Ed. Sidney Mintz.  1974. 
  • "Creative Literature of the British West Indies During the Period of Slavery." Savacou 1 (1970): 46-73. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  127-170.
  • Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica.  1970
  • "Timehri."  Savacou 2 (1970): 35-44. 
    • Is Massa Day Dead?.  Ed. Orde Coombs.  New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1974.  29-44.
  • "West Indian Prose Fiction in the Sixties."  Caribbean Quarterly 16.4 (1970): 5-17.
  • "Caribbean Critics."  New World Quarterly 5.1-2 (1969): 5-12. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  111-126.
  • "The Caribbean Artists Movement."  Caribbean Quarterly 14 (1968): 57-59.
  • "Jazz and the West Indian Novel (Parts I, II and III)."  Bim 44, 45 and 46 (1967-1968): 275-284; 39-51; 115-126. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  55-109.
  • "Roots."  Bim 37 (1963): 10-21. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  28-54.
  • "The New West Indian Novelists (Parts I and II)."  Bim 31 and 32 (1960-1961): 199-210; 271-280.
  • "Sir Galahad and the Islands." Bim 25 (1957): 8-16. 
    • Roots: Essays in Caribbean Literature.  Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1993.  7-27.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Rohlehr, Gordon.  Pathfinder: Black Awakening in the Arrivants of Edward Kamau Brathwaite.  Tunapuna: Gordon Rohlehr, 1981.

  • Scott, David.  "'An Obscure Miracle of Connection.'"  Small Axe 1 (1997): 17-36.  Rpt. in "An Obscure Miracle of Connection."  Refashioning Futures: Criticism After Postcoloniality.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1999.  106-127.

On-Line:

• Books and Writers: Kamau Brathwaite

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Edward Kamau Brathwaite

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