The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy

by Edward Kamau Brathwaite

Book Overview

Here for the first time in a single volume is Edward Brathwaite's Caribbean trilogy - Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands - a brilliant exploration of the predicament of the contemporary New World... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192811541
• ISBN13: 9780192811547
• Release Date: January 1973
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 275 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Arrivants : A New World Trilogy

This is for anyone who likes to learn something about another culture's experience. Some useful topics to research beforehand might include African drum language, treatment of black slaves in the early history of the Caribbean, and voodoo. Even if research isn't for you there is enough wisdom and observation within Brathwaite's poetry which make The Arrivants a valuable addition to the literature lover's collection. Old British standards like "the Queen's English" are reinvented as Brathwaite will take you through a reaquaintance with culture in the name of identity. Included within is a glossary of most of the unfamiliar terms, making the reading extremely accessible. The array of messages developed in the poetry allowing us the rare opportunity to understand the world through the eyes of a poet whose homeland is in the Caribbean, are both innovative as poetry and invaluable as a written history -- a Caribbean history which, while developed from past events, shows how interwoven we all are as humanity. The Arrivants will play "the Korabra" with your mind.