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Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Born

in Bridgetown, Barbados

May 11, 1930

Died

February 04, 2020

Genre

Poetry

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Edward Kamau Brathwaite is widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon. A professor of Comparative Literature at New York University, Brathwaite is the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry Born to Slow Horses.

Brathwaite held a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968) and was the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM). He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983, and was a winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature, the Bussa Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry, and the 1999 Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from the International Poetry Forum.

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Average rating: 4.16 · 1,166 ratings · 97 reviews · 54 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks 4.14 avg rating — 254 ratings — published 1973 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MiddlePassages: Poetry by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Eve Adamson (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.26 avg rating — 138 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trench Town Rock 4.38 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1994 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Odale's Choice 4.04 avg rating — 83 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of the voice: The development of nation language in Anglophone Caribbean poetry 4.14 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1984	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black + Blues 4.18 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 1977 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ancestors 4.13 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	ConVERSations with Nathaniel Mackey 4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elegguas (The Driftless Series & Wesleyan Poetry Series) 3.48 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926—7 September 1986 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...it is not enough to be free
of the whips, principalities and powers”
― Kamau Brathwaite, The arrivants;: A new world trilogy

tags: freedom, independence, mental-slavery, power

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“she is dream of tears of stone
of dark meroë water lapping at the centre of the world…”
― Kamau Brathwaite

tags: she, stone

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“The idea is to try to see the fragments/whole.”
― Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean

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