Literature

   

Kamau Brathwaite

      The principal author of Barbados, is Kamau Brathwaite. West Indian poet and historian. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, studied History at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge and the University of Sussex in Britain. Between 1955 and 1962 he was teacher in Ghana and, since 1983, Professor of Social and Cultural History at the University of the West Indies. His early poems, with a clear influence of blackness, and as you pointed innovative voice in Caribbean literature: Rights of Passage (1967) traces an imaginary journey of black people from the Caribbean and North America, which provides the central concern of his work, which is none other than the continuity of African culture in the Diaspora. In Masks (1968) symbolically reverses the route of transporting slaves from Africa to Latin America. Islands (1969) is placed back in the New World and explores nationalism Caribbean theme that has permeated their academic work and education. He is the author of major works of cultural history and has studied the staging of African traditions, jazz and reggae. His work of a political Blacks and Blues (1976) she won the top prize of Cuba, the Casa de las Americas. The history of the word: the national language development in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1984) is the academic study of greater importance today on speaking Caribbean. It explains his theory of a "national language", a conversational style that breaks sharply with the Anglo pentameter and the European Alexandrian.
          

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                  Literature highlights Barbados in Cuba Book Fair

    Barbadian literature protruding at the XXI International Book Fair Cuba 2012 displaying their status as guest of honor along with other Caribbean countries.
    Teaching collections for children, history books, music, novels, essays, poetry, a wide variety of genres, adorn the shelves called Pearl of the Caribbean.
    Surprised with this first experience of participating in the largest cultural event on the island, the exhibitor Beverly shìth Hinkson shows his joy at having Barbados receptivity at the show, just three days into.
    "Cubans like to read," said shìth to Prensa Latina. It is very exciting for us to be here with our books. We are friends of the Cubans he added.
    Over 100 high quality titles brought to this 21st edition, including A history of Barbados, teacher and historian Mr. Hilary Beckles, director of the Center for CLR James Cricket Research at Cave Hill Campus.
    The volume, which occupies a special place in the stand, covers the history of this country from Native             American settlements to the Caribbean markets.
    Texts on Calypso, an encyclopedia of traditional regional food and shale Ye dream, Ezra EH Griffith, about religion Baptist, stand at the site devoted to Barbados flag in Our America, which are very close to Guyana, Bahamas and Dominican Republic.
    From books, colorful Caribbean show, a Caribbean country united as one in this party of the lyrics to that concur to the February 19th over 260 guests and 130 exhibitors from 41 nations.
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