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Can I read Kamau Brathwaite’s Rhythms of Migration on EtoBox?
Kamau Brathwaite’s Rhythms of Migration by Florian Gargaillo is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Kamau Brathwaite’s Rhythms of Migration about?
This article considers Kamau Brathwaite’s formal articulation of the migrant experience in Rights of Passage (1967). More specifically, it demonstrates how Brathwaite uses patterns of repeated sound — and the way those repetitions work in conjunction with, run counter to, or enter into a complicated relationship with, the metre of a line and stanza — to explore the role of migration in the Caribbean. This rhythmic principle closely mirrors his theory of Caribbean history as “tidalectic” rather than “dialectic”, cyclical rather than linear. Thus the rhythmic shifts described in this essay enact, and give poetic shape to, a historical reality specific to the poet’s native region.
Who reads Kamau Brathwaite’s Rhythms of Migration?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Florian Gargaillo
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences