Kwame Dawes

Biographic Data

ID3613250
NAMEKwame Dawes
GIVEN NAMESKwame
FAMILY NAMEDawes
SIGNATUREDAWES K
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of South Carolina
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1993
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Ode to the Clothesline

    Open AccessKwame DawesARTICLENew Labor Forum2025

  • Reading Rice

    Kwame DawesARTICLEAfrican American Review2017

    967 African American Review 50.4 (Winter 2017): 967-977© 2018 Johns Hopkins University Press and Saint Louis University Dawes_Dawes 2/14/2018 5:38 PM Page 967 968 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Dawes_Dawes 2/14/2018 5:38 PM Page 968 KWAME DAWES 969 Dawes_Dawes 2/14/2018 5:38 PM Page 969 970 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Dawes_Dawes 2/14/2018 5:38 PM Page 970 KWAME DAWES 971 Dawes_Dawes 2/14/2018 5:38 PM Page 971 972 AFRICAN AMERICAN REVIEW Dawes_Dawes 2/14/20…

  • An Apologia for Caribbean Publishing

    Kwame DawesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly2013

    The following is an adaptation of the keynote address delivered by Kwame Dawes for the Twentieth Anniversary and Author Awards Ceremony of the University of the West Indies Press, held on 24 January 2013 at the Regional Headquarters of the University of the West Indies

  • Equations

    Kwame DawesARTICLEThe Baffler2012

  • Black British poetry, some considerations

    Kwame DawesARTICLEWasafiri2003

  • Poems

    Kwame DawesARTICLEWasafiri2000

  • Negotiating the ship on the head

    Kwame DawesARTICLEWasafiri1999Cited by: 1

    (1999). Negotiating the ship on the head: Black British fiction. Wasafiri: Vol. 14, No. 29, pp. 18-24

  • Chinua Achebe

    Kwame Dawes, Ezenwa‐Ohaeto Ezenwa‐Ohaeto et al.ARTICLEWorld Literature Today1998Cited by: 3

  • The South Atlantic Quarterly

    Kwame DawesARTICLEAfrican Affairs1998

  • Dichotomies of reading ‘street poetry’ and ‘book poetry’

    Open AccessKwame DawesARTICLECritical Quarterly1996

  • Achebe or Soyinka

    Kwame DawesARTICLEAfrican Affairs1996

    Journal Article Achebe or Soyinka?: A study in contrasts Get access Achebe or Soyinka?: A study in contrasts, by Kole Omotoso. Hans Zell Publishers, 1995. xxi+188 pp. £45hardback. ISBN 0-9054450-38-8. KWAME DAWES KWAME DAWES University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October 1996, Pages 618–619, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a007780 Pu…

  • The Pressures of the Text

    Kwame DawesARTICLEAfrican Affairs1996

    Journal Article The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales Get access The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales, edited by Stewart Brown. Birmingham University Press African Studies Series No. 4, 1995. 145 pp. £6.00 paperback. ISBN 0 7044 1557 7. KWAME DAWES KWAME DAWES University of South Carolina at Sumter Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, V…

  • Bessie Head--Thunder Behind Her Ears, Her Life and Writing

    Kwame DawesARTICLEAfrican Affairs1996

    Journal Article Bessie Head—Thunder Behind Her Ears, Her Life and Writing Get access Bessie Head—Thunder Behind Her Ears, Her Life and Writing, by Gillian Stead Eilersen. Heinemann, James Currey, David Philip, 1995. 312 pages. £12.95 paperback. ISBN 0-435-08984-6 ( Heinemann). KWAME DAWES KWAME DAWES University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 95, Issue 381, October…

  • An Act of “Unruly” Savagery

    Kwame Dawes, Kwame S N DawesARTICLECaribbean Quarterly1994

    (1994). An Act of “Unruly” Savagery: Re-Writing Black Rebellion in the Language of the Colonizer. H.G. de Lisser's The White Witch of Rosehall. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 40, Cultural Marronage, pp. 1-12

  • Progeny of Air

    Kwame DawesARTICLECallaloo1993

  • Grace

    Kwame DawesARTICLECallaloo1993