Kamau Brathwaite

Biographic Data

ID1369625
NAMEKamau Brathwaite
GIVEN NAMESKamau
FAMILY NAMEBrathwaite
SIGNATUREBRATHWAITE K
AFFILIATIONSNew York University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS20
TOTAL CITATIONS184
WORKS AS AUTHOR20
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1971
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • Opitennin

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2017

    The morning that i stir within the narrow compost of my gravemiraculously ash space move around my head to open out my eyethe eyelids sticking down some time until they openingThat i cd lift my head and shoulders' shadowsfind arms & legs to shift the crisp & sound-less wind-like gravel for more company. push myself forward upsit there w/in the dark of worms & soft-stones for a whilemy nose allowing me to breathe the sticky myrrh of frankincense a…

  • Four Poems for Retamar

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2016

    the sea is ours. the sea is.its tides toss sweep towards and claimthese dark millennial hours . edges of uttarly xtent within their namethe depths too deep for night and our regretits greem salt kingdom sweeps us out away steep down beyond our powerbeyond the camber of the keel where it's too oldfor knowledge . the bone inside my thinning fingers running coldeye in its likkle shell of life beginning its first feeling sound . then sight . intentfa…

  • Four first poems from the last Green Book of Love

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri2015

    ̇High wind . cane crop . grass fires in my facethe world's beginning coming to its end's beginning of the racedeath of more mothers . generations going going gone but the suns alive in leaveswhat s

  • Oríkí fe Madíba

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2014

    Research Article| July 01 2014 Oríkí fe Madíba Kamau Brathwaite Kamau Brathwaite Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2014) 18 (2 (44)): 69–71. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739848 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kamau Brathwaite; Oríkí fe Madíba. Small Axe 1 July 2014; 18 (2 (44)): 69–71. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2739848 Download citation file: Zotero Refe…

  • Lamentin

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2011

    Research Article| November 01 2011 Lamentin kamau brathwaite kamau brathwaite Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2011) 15 (3 (36)): 101. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1443313 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation kamau brathwaite; Lamentin. S…

  • Belladonna

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLESmall Axe A Caribbean Journal of…2011

    Research Article| July 01 2011 belladonna Kamau Brathwaite Kamau Brathwaite Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2011) 15 (2 (35)): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334203 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Kamau Brathwaite; belladonna. Small Axe 1 July 2011; 15 (2 (35)): 1–6. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-1334203 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager …

  • Poems

    Kamau Brathwaite, Nicolas Guillén et al.ARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2008

  • Poem

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri2004

  • Namsetoura & the Companion Stranger

    Open AccessKamau BrathwaiteARTICLEAnthurium A Caribbean Studies…2003

    Anthurium: A Caribbean Studies Journal includes scholarship on the work of visual artists, commentary on current issues in Caribbean studies and travelogues. Anthurium remains committed to bridging the digital divide by making peer reviewed, scholarly articles and creative writing available to teachers, students, scholars and persons interested in Caribbean literature and culture worldwide without fee based subscriptions. We would like to thank t…

  • Grease

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLECallaloo2003

    The water of the mirror in the room is dark green. Quiet as translucence in the light of a limestone cave nr the ocean. and it had been pasted on/to the wall like a map. the shape of a ilann one of those lopp slidèd half-square Caribbean-shape islands like Trinidad or central Virgin Gorda bicycles of clock bangg from the sky of the ceiling & there was a large black snortless hunchback motorbike yu wd hardly notice like some large stuff animal or …

  • New Gods of the Middle Passages

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2000Cited by: 1

    Evoquant les experiences historiques du premier passage de l'Atlantique des Africains vers les Caraibes, et du second passage de retour vers le continent d'origine, l'A. a fait le choix, pour cette lecture publique, du langage poetique. Il suggere que la realite contemporaine du second passage s'inscrit dans la memoire de l'experience dramatique premiere. A l'image du flux et du reflux de la maree, ce retour est symbolique du mouvement de l'ocean…

  • Rex Nettleford & the Renaissance of Caribbean Culture

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1997

    (1997). Rex Nettleford & the Renaissance of Caribbean Culture. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 43, No. 1-2, pp. 34-69

  • A post‐cautionary tale of the Helen of our wars

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri1995Cited by: 3

  • Something Torn and New

    Kamau Brathwaite, C CooperARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1995

    (1995). ‘Something Torn and New:’ The Grenada Revolution. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 41, Something Torn and New—The Grenada Revolution, pp. iv-vi

  • Days & Nights or Jean Rhys & Cynthia Wilson

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri1995

  • I Christobel Colon’

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri1993

  • Caliban's Guarden’

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLEWasafiri1992Cited by: 1

  • Pam Mordecai's Journey Poem

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1990

  • Ala(r)ms of God—Konnu and Carnival in the Caribbean

    Kamau BrathwaiteARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1990

    (1990). Ala(r)ms of God—Konnu and Carnival in the Caribbean. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 36, No. 3-4, pp. 77-107

  • The development of Creole society in Jamaica, 1770-1820.

    Kamau BrathwaiteBOOKThe development of Creole society…1971Cited by: 179