Come Back to Me My Language Poetry and the West Indies |
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| Author:
| Chamberlin, J. Edward |
| ISBN: | 978-0-252-06297-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
| Publisher: | University of Illinois Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $22.00 |
Book Description:
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In the last fifty years a powerful and distinctive body of poetry has emerged in the West Indies. Unique in its combination of African sources and British colonial traditions, and still resonating with the curse of slavery, this poetry shares its roots with rap and reggae and has the same hold on the popular imagination. But it has also become ......
In the last fifty years a powerful and distinctive body of poetry has emerged in the West Indies. Unique in its combination of African sources and British colonial traditions, and still resonating with the curse of slavery, this poetry shares its roots with rap and reggae and has the same hold on the popular imagination. But it has also become ......