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S'està carregant… The Arrivants: A New World Trilogyde Edward Kamau Brathwaite
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Musical, fast-moving, and powerful, this collection is worth exploring when you have time to sit and simply read it straight through. While the poems can, for the most part, stand alone, the collection is clearly meant to be read straight through. The narrative strands and voices here are carefully woven and expertly tempered by musical rhythms. Well worth the time for poetry fans. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Here for the first time in a single volume is Edward Brathwaite's Caribbean trilogy - Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands - a brilliant exploration of the predicament of the contemporary New World Negro. Through the tension of jazz/folk rhythm, through historical flashbacks, and excursions to Europe, New York and Africa, the poet interweaves the past and present of his Caribbean homeland - its natural beauty, its violent history, the values that sustain its people - into a vigorous anddistinctive poetic statement. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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Book-length poems often seem rather intimidating, and it doesn't necessarily help when you know that Brathwaite cites the Beats, the Harlem Renaissance, Miles Davis and Aimé Césaire as major influences. You come to this book expecting rant, sprawl, and unintelligible Africanisms, but what you actually find is a remarkably well-disciplined bit of poetic engineering. There are apostrophes to African gods, to James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre, there are episodes of calypso, limbo and cricket, there's even the occasional bit of good-old-fashioned Pastoral, but it's always there for a good reason and as you read, you can see the pieces of the puzzle clicking into place around you and building up a complicated multidimensional picture of the world that slavery has made.
This is very oral poetry, which you should probably try to imagine being performed in a pub in Brixton or a basement in Greenwich Village. Brathwaite makes use of a very wide range of language registers, from formal academic English right through to patois, creole, black American English, and fragments of African languages. He provides a short glossary of the most important African terms, but most of the time you're on your own (but with enough clues in the context not to lose track completely). Masks is the most difficult part from this point of view, as you need to have at least a general idea about African religious beliefs and the way they are reflected in Caribbean traditions to make sense of what Brathwaite is trying to say. The endnote is quite helpful for this. Rights of Passage and Islands are both much more accessible.
One thing in particular you need to come to terms with is Brathwaite's habit of writing long passages in very short (one or two stress) lines. This might look like sixties affectation on the cold page, but it makes complete sense when you realise how it's meant to be read with a strong drumbeat rhythm behind it. It's really useful to listen to a recording of Brathwaite reading it (there are some on Poetry Archive).
Rant? You want rant? Well, there is a bit, but it's very cool, organised rant:
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