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ocm26329109 |
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OCoLC |
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20240701105718.0 |
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920723s1992 enk 000 0 eng c |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
92190335 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
1852242248 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781852242244 |
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pbk |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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OCLCQ |
| Transcribing agency |
NLJDA |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
811 WI Bra |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kamau Brathwaite. |
| Dates associated with a name |
1930-2020. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Middle passages / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Kamau Brathwaite. |
| Medium |
PRINT |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Newcastle upon Tyne : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloodaxe Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1992. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
90 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Word Making Man -- Colombe -- Noom -- Duke -- Flute(s) -- Veridian -- The Visibility Trigger -- How Europe underdeveloped Africa -- Stone -- Sahell -- Soweto -- Leopard -- Letter Sycora[chi] -- Irae. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
MiddlePassages is an offshoot of the author's second trilogy, 'a splice of time & space', as he puts it, between his/father's world of Sun Poem and 'the magical irrealism' of X/Self. With his other 'shorter' collections Black + Blues and Third World Poems, MiddlePassages creates a kind of chisel which may well lead us into a projected third trilogy. Here is a political angle to Brathwaite's Caribbean & New World quest, with new notes of protest and lament. It marks a Sisyphean stage of Third World history in which things fall apart and everyone's achievements come tumbling back down upon their heads and into their hearts, like the great stone which King Sisyphus was condemned to keep heaving back up the same hill in hell - a postmodernist implosion already signalled by Baldwin, Patterson, Soyinka and Achebe and more negatively by V.S. Naipaul; but given a new dimension here by Brathwaite's rhythmical and 'video' affirmations. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
And so MiddlePassages includes poems for those modern heroes who are the pegs by which the mountain must be climbed again: Maroon resistance, the poets Nicolas Guillen, the Cuban revolutionary, and Mikey Smith, stoned to death on Stony Hill; the great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith); and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney and Nelson Mandela. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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LCSH |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English poetry. |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Source of heading or term |
LCSH |
| Geographic name |
Barbados. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
| Classification part |
811 |
| Item part |
WI Bra |
