Questioning as utopian practice in Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite’s Rights of Passage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9002563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Amor Kohli (DePaul University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 411-427 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Commonwealth Literature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9894 • E-ISSN: 1741-6442 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0021989412456466 |
| OpenAlex | W2335682821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
This essay examines the ways in which Edward (Kamau) Brathwaite’s first volume engages critique and questioning as an exemplification of a utopian impulse that results in an emergent critical consciousness. By looking at how interrogative and inquisitive moments might give form to potential resistance, the essay elaborates how Rights of Passage is the site of and vehicle for a variety of oppositional refusals, inquiries, and dreams that enact a utopian impulse. Written at an historical moment of widespread questioning and challenging, Rights of Passage offers through the characters who inhabit its pages, instances of subtly probing attempts to grapple with, understand, and potentially change their worlds
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Epistemology · Exemplification · Impulse (physics · Literature · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Race, History, and American Society · Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,07 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2012 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |