RootsAn award-winning poet, historian, and cultural critic, Brathwaite supports provocative assertions about the literary traditions of his islands with careful readings of V.S. Naipul, Derek Wolcott, and George Lamming, among others while, also offering the insights of writers not ordinarily associated with the Caribbean--James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and LeRoi Jones. |
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Jazz and the West Indian novel | 55 |
Caribbean critics | 111 |
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