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Kamau Brathwaite
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Region

Caribbean

Barbados

Era

Post-colonial

Language

English

Genre

Poetry

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Third and final volume of The Arrivants trilogy, returning to the Caribbean to interrogate what remains after the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism — and what can be built.

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Completes Brathwaite's foundational trilogy; one of the great sustained poetic achievements of the 20th century

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Third and final volume of The Arrivants trilogy, returning to the Caribbean to interrogate what remains after the Middle Passage, slavery, and colonialism — and what can be built. Completes Brathwaite's foundational trilogy; one of the great sustained poetic achievements of the 20th century

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