Global InformationBarabajan Poems information
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| Author | Kamau Brathwaite |
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| Country | Jamaica and United States |
| Subject | Barbadian poetry History and criticism, Postcolonialism |
| Genre | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
| Set in | The Caribbean |
| Published | 1994 |
| Publisher | Savacou Publications |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 380+ |
| ISBN | 9780964042438 |
| OCLC | 31099127 |
Barabajan Poems, 1492–1992 is a collection of various types of writing, authored by the Barbados postcolonial author Kamau Brathwaite and published by Savacou Publications in 1994.[1][2]
In this collection, readers experience a number of Brathwaite's overwhelming ordeals in his recent life, shared honestly and sincerely.[3] It is not only autobiographical but also represents a community defined by a Caribbean culture in transition from colonialism to a modernized independent economic state within the "new world order".[3] It is fictionally and spiritually a magic book, serving as a counterweight to Prospero's books of magic in Shakespeare's playThe Tempest, and is a foil for the bygone landlords Christopher Columbus (1992 was the Columbus Quincentenary) and the fictional Prospero.
- ^ Reckin, Ann (December 2003). "Kamau Brathwaite's Prose [and] Poetry as Sound-Space". Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal. 1 (1). University of Miami: Article 5. doi:10.33596/anth.4. Retrieved 15 February 2020. 17 pages. Free PDF download.
- ^ Otto, Melanie. "Edward Brathwaite: Barabajan Poems". The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4:. 22 May 2012. Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
- ^ a b Savory, Elaine. Wordsongs & Wordwounds / "Homecoming: Kamau Brathwaite's Barabajan Poems". World Literature Today. 68.4, Autumn 1994, pp. 750–57. JSTOR 40150620.