Caribbean
Barbados
Post-colonial
English
Poetry
First volume of The Arrivants trilogy, tracing the Atlantic journey of enslaved Africans and their descendants through jazz, blues, and Caribbean rhythms. Brathwaite invented the concept of 'nation language.'
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Brathwaite's revolutionary deployment of African Caribbean oral rhythms as literary form
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editorial-summarynot primary textFirst volume of The Arrivants trilogy, tracing the Atlantic journey of enslaved Africans and their descendants through jazz, blues, and Caribbean rhythms. Brathwaite invented the concept of 'nation language.' Brathwaite's revolutionary deployment of African Caribbean oral rhythms as literary form
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