Caliban’s New Masters: Creolizing Archetypes in Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants Trilogy
IA major part of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetic work has been devoted to excavating and reclaiming submerged African retentions in the Caribbean, and the New World more generally; and critics have, of course, stereotypically constructed his aesthetic practice in a binary relationship with the work of De...
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | IA major part of Kamau Brathwaite’s poetic work has been devoted to excavating and reclaiming submerged African retentions in the Caribbean, and the New World more generally; and critics have, of course, stereotypically constructed his aesthetic practice in a binary relationship with the work of Derek Walcott, who has often been viewed as a more Eurocentric poet. While Walcott turns to the Iliad and Odyssey and to Crusoe and Don Juan for departure-points, Brathwaite, so the argument runs, lo... |
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