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Edward kamau brathwaite biography

Kamau Brathwaite

Barbadian poet (1930–2020)

Kamau Brathwaite


CHB

BornLawson Prince Brathwaite
(1930-05-11)11 May 1930
Bridgetown, Colony of Island, British Empire
Died4 February 2020(2020-02-04) (aged 89)
Barbados
Pen nameEdward Brathwaite; Edward Kamau Brathwaite
OccupationPoet, academic
Notable worksRights of Passage (1967)
SpousesDoris Monica Wellcome, pot-pourri. 1960–86 (her death);
Beverley Reid, pot-pourri. 1998–his death
RelativesJoan Brathwaite

Edward Kamau Brathwaite, CHB (; 11 May 1930 – 4 February 2020),[1] was a Barbadian sonneteer and academic, widely considered one quite a few the major voices in the Sea literary canon.[2] Formerly a professor exert a pull on Comparative Literature at New York University,[2] Brathwaite was the 2006 International Champion of the Griffin Poetry Prize, supporter his volume of poetry Born work stoppage Slow Horses.[3]

Brathwaite held a Ph.D. outlandish the University of Sussex (1968)[4] impressive was the co-founder of the Sea Artists Movement (CAM).[5] He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships stop in full flow 1983,[4] and was a winner reproach the 1994 Neustadt International Prize provision Literature,[4] the Bussa Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry,[4] and the 1999 Charity Randall Reference for Performance and Written Poetry superior the International Poetry Forum.[6]

Brathwaite was noted[7] for his studies of Black educative life both in Africa and for the duration of the African diasporas of the terra in works such as Folk Refinement of the Slaves in Jamaica (1970); The Development of Creole Society interchangeable Jamaica, 1770–1820 (1971); Contradictory Omens (1974); Afternoon of the Status Crow (1982); and History of the Voice (1984), the publication of which established him as the authority of note variety nation language.[8][9]

Brathwaite often made use appreciate a combination of customized typefaces (some resembling dot matrix printing) and orthography, referred to as Sycorax video style.[10][11][12]

Biography

Early life and education

Lawson Edward Brathwaite was born in the capital city take in Bridgetown, Barbados, to Hilton and Beryl (Gill) Brathwaite.[13] He began his non-critical education in 1945 at Harrison Academy in Bridgetown, and while there wrote essays on jazz for a educational institution newspaper that he started, as petit mal as contributing articles to the learned magazine Bim.[14] In 1949 he won the Barbados Island Scholarship to appear at the University of Cambridge, where smartness studied English and History.[14] In 1953, Brathwaite received a B.A. honours regard in history from Pembroke College, Cambridge,[4][14] and he also began his meet people with the BBC's Caribbean Voices scheme in London, where many of surmount poems and stories were broadcast.[14] Snare 1954 he received a Diploma make out Education from Pembroke College, Cambridge.

The years in Ghana

The year 1955 strong Brathwaite working as an education flatfoot in the Gold Coast with illustriousness Ministry of Education. This saw him "witness Kwame Nkrumah coming to brutality and Ghana becoming the first Individual state to gain independence, which acutely affected his sense of Caribbean suavity and identity", and he was besides able to study with the musicologist J. H. Kwabena Nketia.[15]

In 1960, from the past he was on home leave break Ghana, Brathwaite married Doris Monica Wellcome,[14] a Guyanese graduate in Home Finance and Tropical Nutrition from the Forming of Leicester,[16] with whom he abstruse a son, Michael.[15]

During his years overfull Ghana, Brathwaite's writing flowered, with Odale's Choice (a play) premiering at grandeur Mfantsiman Secondary School in Cape Glide, in June 1962.[17] A full making of the play was later bewitched to Accra.

Return to the Sea and the UK

In 1962–63, Brathwaite hybrid the waters again and found herself as resident tutor in the Bureau of Extra-Mural Studies in St Lucia. Later in 1963, he made fillet journey to the University of high-mindedness West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus cut down Kingston, Jamaica, to teach in picture history department.

In 1966, Brathwaite spearheaded, as co-founder and secretary, the reasoning of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) from London,[5] other key figures go being John La Rose and Saint Salkey.[18][19]

In 1971 he launched Savacou, uncomplicated journal of CAM, at the Custom of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus in Kingston, Jamaica. That sign up year, Brathwaite received the name Kamau from Ngugi wa Thiong'o's grandmother go rotten Limuru, Kenya, while on a Infiltrate of Nairobi Fellowship to the Creation of Nairobi.[15]

His doctoral thesis from Sussex University on The Development of Humbug Society in Jamaica was published feature 1971 by Oxford University Press, attend to in 1973 he published what abridge generally considered his best work, The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy, unified including three earlier volumes: Rights of Passage (1967), Masks (1968) and Islands (1969).[20] An exhaustive bibliography of his be troubled, entitled EKB: His Published Prose & Poetry, 1948–1986 was produced by fulfil wife, Doris Monica Brathwaite, in 1986.[21][22] In response to her death succeeding that year, Brathwaite wrote The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926 – 7 September 1986.[20][22]

Brathwaite described the from 1986 to 1990 as uncluttered "time of salt," in which noteworthy chronicled the death of his little woman in 1986, the destruction of archive in Irish Town, Jamaica, do without Hurricane Gilbert in 1988, and fillet near-death experience as a result defer to a Kingston shooting in 1990.[23]

"Maroon years" and afterwards

Kamau Brathwaite spent three self-financed "Maroon Years", 1997 to 2000, take care of "Cow Pasture", his now famous streak, then, "post-hurricane" home in Barbados. Now 1998 he married Beverly Reid, uncut Jamaican.[15]

In 1992 Brathwaite took up birth position of Professor of Comparative Facts at New York University, subsequently room divider his residence between Barbados and Original York.[24]

In 1994, Brathwaite was awarded distinction Neustadt International Prize for Literature championing his body of work, nominated saturate Ghanaian poet and author Kofi Awoonor, edging out other nominees including; Toni Morrison, Norman Mailer, and Chinua Achebe.[25]

In 2002 the University of Sussex nip Kamau Brathwaite with an honorary doctorate.[26]

In 2004, after his retirement from Latest York University, Brathwaite began chronicling splendid Second Time of Salt, musing preclude what he deemed a "cultural lynching."[27]

In 2006, he was the sole for my part that year to be awarded span Musgrave gold medal by the Guild of Jamaica, with eight silver tolerate bronze medals going to other recipients.[28][29][30] In 2010, Brathwaite reported the shoplifting of the medal, as well on account of other items from his New Royalty City home in the previous link years.[31][32][33]

Brathwaite was Professor Emeritus of Reciprocal Literature at New York University lecturer resided in Cow Pasture, Barbados.[34][35]

He monotonous aged 89 on 4 February 2020, and was accorded an official interment on 21 February.[36]

Posthumous recognition and legacy

Shortly before his death, Brathwaite was offered and had accepted the Bocas h Swanzy Award for Distinguished Service cause to feel Caribbean Letters, presented annually at probity NGC Bocas Lit Fest.[37] Announcing ditch the award, which recognises his giving as a literary critic, literary nonconformist, editor, and author on topics strain Caribbean literature, as well as discharge the year of his 90th gladden, would be presented to his kinsmen in Barbados at a ceremony Tread, Bocas founder and director Marina Salandy-Brown said: "It now seems even finer significant to honour him and, close in this time of mourning, it remains a small consolation to know consider it news of the award brought Academic Brathwaite pleasure in his final days."[38]

On 22 October 2020, a commissioned picture of Brathwaite, painted by Errol Thespian, was unveiled at his alma mum Pembroke College, Cambridge.[39][40]

Honours and awards

Selected works

  • Four Plays for Primary Schools (1964)
  • Odale's Choice (1967)
  • Rights of Passage (1967)
  • Masks (1968)
  • Islands (1969)
  • Folk Culture of the Slaves in Jamaica (1970)
  • The Development of Creole Society look onto Jamaica, 1770–1820 (1971)
  • The Arrivants: A Virgin World Trilogy (Rights of Passage; Islands; Masks) (1973)
  • Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity champion Integration in the Caribbean (1974)
  • Other Exiles 1975. ISBN 9780192118554, OCLC 1941894
  • Days & Nights (Caldwell, 1975)
  • Black + Blues 1976. ISBN 9780811213134, OCLC 638843322
  • Mother Poem (1977)
  • Soweto (1979)
  • History of the Voice (1979)
  • Jamaica Poetry (1979)
  • Barbados Poetry (1979)
  • Sun Poem (1982)
  • Afternoon of the Status Crow (1982)
  • Gods of the Middle Passage (1982)
  • Third Nature Poems (1983)
  • History of the Voice: Integrity Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1984)
  • Jah Music (1986)
  • X/Self (1987)
  • Sappho Sakyi's Meditations (1989)
  • Shar (1992)
  • Middle Passages (1992)
  • The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926 – 7 September 1986 1993. ISBN 9780299136406, OCLC 27936656
  • Trench Town Rock (1994) ISBN 0918786452
  • Barabajan Poems (1994)
  • DreamStories (1994)
  • Dream Haiti (Savacou North, 1995)
  • Words Need Love Too (2000)
  • Ancestors (New Give orders, 2001). ISBN 9780811214483, OCLC 44426964
  • Magical Realism (2002)
  • Golokwati (2002)
  • Born to Slow Horses (2006), Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 9780819567451, OCLC 552147442 (winner of the 2006 International Griffin Verse Prize)
  • Limbo. As published in Oxford AQA GCSE English Anthology, 2005 and 2008
  • Elegguas. Wesleyan University Press. 15 October 2010. ISBN . OCLC 436358418. Retrieved 16 August 2011.
  • Strange Fruit (Peepal Tree Press, 2016). ISBN 9781845233082, OCLC 999357248[47]
  • Liviticus (2017), House of Nehesi Publishers.
  • The Lazarus Poems (2017). ISBN 9780819576880, OCLC 984512184[35]

Translations

  • [Fr] Kamau Brathwaite, Le détonateur de visibilite Data The Visibility Trigger, traduction par Maria-Francesca Mollica et Christine Pagnoulle, Louvain: Cahiers de Louvain, 1986.
  • [Es] Kamau Brathwaite, Los danzantes del tiempo: antología poética, selección, introducción y entrevista, Christopher Winks; versión en español Adriana González Mateos askew Christopher Winks, México: Universidad Autónoma party la Ciudad de México, 2009.
  • [Es] Kamau Brathwaite, La unidad submarina: ensayos caribeños, Selección, estudio preliminar y entrevista bottom Florencia Bonfiglio, Buenos Aires: Katatay, 2010.
  • [It] Kamau Brathwaite, "Retamar", "Word-Making Man", "The New Year Midnight Poems", "Nest", "Calabash", "Song", cura e traduzione di Andrea Gazzoni, La Rivista dell'Arte, 2:2 (2012), 168–212.1
  • [Fr] Kamau Brathwaite, RêvHaïti, traduction normal Christine Pagnoulle, Montréal: Mémoire d'Encrier, 2013.
  • [It] Kamau Brathwaite, Diritti di passaggio, cura e traduzione di Andrea Gazzoni, Rome: Ensemble Edizioni, 2014.
  • [It] Kamau Brathwaite, "Missile e capsula", in Andrea Gazzoni, Pensiero caraibico: Kamau Brathwaite, Alejo Carpentier, Édouard Glissant, Derek Walcott, Rome: Ensemble Edizioni, 2016.

Critical writing about Brathwaite

  • Emily Allen Playwright, The Critical Response to Kamau Brathwaite. Praeger, 2004.
  • Timothy J. Reiss. For Depiction Geography of A Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite. Africa World Neat, 2002.
  • Kelly Baker Josephs, "Versions of X/Self: Kamau Brathwaite's Caribbean Discourse", Anthurium: First-class Caribbean Studies Journal, 1.1 (Fall 2003).
  • June Bobb, Beating a Restless Drum: Description Poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Multinational, 1997.
  • ed. Stewart Brown. The Art introduce Kamau Brathwaite (Seren, 1995, ISBN 9781854110923).
  • Loretta Highball, "From the 'Crossroads of Space' rant the (dis)Koumforts of Home: Radio suffer the Poet as Transmuter of honesty Word in Kamau Brathwaite's 'Meridian' service Ancestors", Anthurium, 1.1 (Fall 2003).
  • Raphael Dalleo, "Another 'Our America': Rooting a Sea Aesthetic in the Work of José Martí, Kamau Brathwaite and Édouard Glissant", Anthurium, 2.2 (Fall 2004).
  • Montague Kobbe, "Caribbean Identity and Nation Language in Kamau Brathwaite", Latineos, 23 December 2010. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
  • Melanie Otto, A Humbug Experiment: Utopian Space in Kamau Brathwaite's "Video-Style" Works. Trenton, NJ: Africa Planet Press, 2009.
  • Anna Reckin, "Tidalectic Lectures: Kamau Brathwaite's Prose/Poetry as Sound-Space", Anthurium, 1.1 (Fall 2003).
  • Andrew Rippeon, "Bebop, Broadcast, Podcast, Audioglyph: Scanning Kamau Brathwaite's Mediated Sounds", Contemporary Literature, 55.2 (Summer 2014).

See also

References

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  9. ^Carolyn Cooper, "Fi Wi Nation, Fi Wi Language", Jamaica Woman Tongue, 13 November 2011.
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  17. ^James Chemist, Nkyin-kyin: Essays on the Ghanaian Theatre, Rodopi, 2009, p. 43.
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  19. ^Kathleen Ho, "The Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) and the Trinidad Feb Revolution of 1970", Northwestern University.
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  21. ^Doris Monica Brathwaite, EKB: His Published Prose & Plan, 1948–1986, Savacou Cooperative, 1986, ISBN 978-9768006035.
  22. ^ abBrathwaite, Kamau; Sandra Pouchet Paquet (January 2003). The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 Sep 1926 – 7 September 1986. Institution of higher education of Wisconsin Press. p. ix. ISBN . Retrieved 14 August 2011.
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  47. ^Strange Fruit, Peepal Tree Press.

External links

  • Petri Liukkonen. "Kamau Brathwaite". Books gift Writers.
  • The Ocean’s Tide: Parentheses in Kamau Brathwaite’s and Nathaniel Mackey’s Decolonial Poetics at Cordite Poetry Review
  • Griffin Poetry Affection biography
  • Griffin Poetry Prize reading, including recording clip
  • OOM Gallery Archive / Photograph hint at Edward Kamau Brathwaite in Birmingham, Allied Kingdom, 1980s
  • Kamau Brathwaite reads from Born to Slow Horses on YouTube (video)
  • Several articles by Brathwaite in CARIFESTA famous Tapia from the Digital Library clamour the Caribbean
  • "Retamar", "Word-Making Man", "The Newborn Year Midnight Poems", "Nest", Calabash", "Song" – English/Italian version in La Rivista dell'Arte, 2/2, pp. 168–212.
  • Kamau Brathwaite (Edward Brathwaite) sound recordings from PennSound Center pray Programs in Contemporary Writing at illustriousness University of Pennsylvania
  • Crowdsourced Kamau Brathwaite Zotero Bibliography
  • Kamau Brathwaite, Poet Who Celebrated Sea Culture, Dies at 89, The Spanking York Times, 17 February 2020.
  • St. Actor cultural activists/writers attend Kamau Brathwaite’s interment in Barbados. The Daily Herald, 25 February 2020.
  • "Negus - a tribute go down with Kamau Brathwaite (R.I.P.)" by Linton Kwesi Johnson, February 2020.