Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo: Art, Politics, and the Music of Ritual

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2009
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This book is the first comparative work of its kind to provide an extended analysis of the contribution of Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo. It considers the poetic works of these two artists as they responded to the transformations taking place within Africa and the Caribbean during the Independence period. Some of the issues discussed include: politics and art, religion, spirituality, traditional culture versus popular culture, language and identity, literature and orality, cyber-culture and identity.
This book highlights some of the similarities and differences in the life and work of these two poets and examines various aspects of their style. It provides a clearer understanding of the stances these artists took on crucial issues that would shape the face of their respective societies way beyond the Independence period.

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This book is the first comparative work of its kind to provide an extended analysis of the contribution of Kamau Brathwaite and Christopher Okigbo. It considers the poetic works of these two artists as they responded to the transformations taking place within Africa and the Caribbean during the Independence period. Some of the issues discussed include: politics and art, religion, spirituality, traditional culture versus popular culture, language and identity, literature and orality, cyber-culture and identity.
This book highlights some of the similarities and differences in the life and work of these two poets and examines various aspects of their style. It provides a clearer understanding of the stances these artists took on crucial issues that would shape the face of their respective societies way beyond the Independence period.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 228
Edition: 1st New edition
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
Published: 01 Mar 2009
ISBN 10: 3039117165
ISBN 13: 9783039117161

Media Reviews

Scholars have started constructing courses on `The Literature of Global Africa'. For such a course a volume which combines Christopher Okigbo with Kamau Braithwaite is worth considering for required reading. Here is poetry which both soars high and digs deep. (Ali A. Mazrui, D.Phil., (Oxon), C.B.S., Director, Institute of Global Cultural Studies, Binghamton University, SUNY)
Written with clarity, conviction and what is even better, a calm excitement. It is insightful, and with its `multi-tracked' approach to Kamau and Okigbo, definitely breaks new ground. (Prof. Gordon Rohlehr, Professor Emeritus of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago)

Author Bio

The Author: Curwen Best is Senior Lecturer in Popular Culture and Literary Studies in the Department of Language, Linguistics and Literature, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. He is an authority on Caribbean popular culture. His published books include: Barbadian Popular Music (1999); Roots to Popular Culture (2001); Culture @ the Cutting Edge (2005); The Politics of Caribbean Cyberculture (2008).