"The Politics of Style in "Caribbean Man in Space and Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4970895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nadi Edwards (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 127-133 |
| Publication date | 2021-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Axe A Caribbean Journal of Criticism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1534-6714 • E-ISSN: 0799-0537 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/07990537-9583474 |
| OpenAlex | W4285337421 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
This essay reads Kamau Brathwaite's seminal 1975 essay "Caribbean Man in Space and Time" in terms of its rhetorical politics. Conceptually, the essay's hybrid and heterogeneous discourses and registers are theorized in terms drawn from Clifford Geertz, Leah Rosenberg, and Mandy Bloomfield. Brathwaite's style effectively instantiates "Caribbean Man" as an exemplary model of the practice of Caribbean studies. The essay is posited as a palimpsestic text, haunted by Brathwaite's prior creative and critical texts as well as the work of other Caribbean writers and intellectuals and animated by metaphors of creolization that derive from the archipelago's geology, geography, and history. Ultimately, "Caribbean Man," while immured in the nationalist sensibility of the 1970s, eschews a reductive nationalist politics for a more expansive notion of nation and community akin to Wilson Harris's shamanic espousal of Indigenous and ancestral presences in the Caribbean imaginary
Aesthetics · Art · Creolization · Expansive · Indigenous · Literature · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Sensibility · Sociology · Style (visual arts · Temporalities · The Imaginary · Theology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · History · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |