The Art of Kamau Brathwaite / edited by Stewart Brown.

Includes "Index of works by Brathwaite cited."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-268).

Also issued online.

An interview with Kamau Brathwaite / Nathaniel Mackey -- The language of Kamau Brathwaite / J. Edward Chamberlin -- Africa : submerged mother / Maureen Warner-Lewis -- Brathwaite and jazz -- Louis James -- Kamau Brathwaite as cultural critic / Glyne A. Griffith -- "The unity is submarine" : aspects of a Pan-Caribbean consciousness in the work of Kamau Brathwaite / Bridget Jones -- A sense of community : Kamau Brathwaite and the Caribbean Artists Movement / Anne Walmsley -- Overlapping journeys : The arrivants / Mervyn Morris -- Wringing the word / Nathaniel Mackey -- Sun poem : the rainbow sign? / Stewart Brown -- The rehumanization of history : regeneration of spirit : apocalypse and revolution in Brathwaite's The aarivants and X/Self / Gordon Rohlehr -- returning to Sycorax/Prospero's response : Kamau Brathwaite's word journey / Elaine Savory.

(Cont.) Metaphors of underdevelopment : a proem for Hernan Cortez / Kamau Brathwaite.

"Kamau Brathwaite is arguably the most original poet yet to emerge from the Caribbean; in terms of his technical experimentation with form and language and the sheer scale and ambition of his work he is certainly the most adventurous. Author of over a dozen collections of poetry, several works of cultural criticism, plays for schools, and a standard volume of Caribbean history, and for many years editor of Bim and Savacou, his position in Caribbean culture is of enormous importance. As a leading apologist for the Caribbean Artists Movement he is recognised as an influential thinker on areas such as pan-Caribbean sensibility and alternatives to colonial/neo-colonial cultural models." "The Art of Kamau Brathwaite is the first full length study of Brathwaite's work and thinking. It addresses his poetry and other written work and explores the three inter-connected concerns which have shaped his consciousness: Africa, jazz and the use of West Indian language in poetry. The essayists are all specialists from both the Caribbean and Britain and north America, and Brathwaite himself provides both an interview and a major work in his 'Metaphors of Underdevelopment: a Proem for Hernan Cortez'."--Jacket.

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