Kamau Brathwaite
Poetry, Materialities and Climate History
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4833508 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamín Alías (0009-0006-6784-6707, Universidad de San Andrés/CONICET (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas) Argentina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 220-230 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.70012 |
| OpenAlex | W4408905497 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This work review a selection of poems by Kamau Brathwaite that belong to the anthologies: Islands (1969), The Arrivants (1973), Black and Blues (1976) and The Ancestors (1977). From the viewpoint of contemporary materialism, which encompasses both its transcultural variant and climatic imaginaries, I am approaching the cultural history of extraction in the English Caribbean. This means studying not only the socio-historical dimensions of the subaltern world but also the fractures between colonial history and environmental history. Instead of approaching Kamau's verses symbolically or allegorically, I observe that the author's poems exhibit a series of intertwinings between the human and the non-human within the precariousness of the plantation worker, as well as a material history of crops like sugar or cotton that transcends mere commodity status
Archaeology · Art · Literature · Poetry · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |