The Zea Mexican Diary: 7 September 1926-7 September 1986 (Wisconsin Studies in American Autobiography) - Hardcover

Brathwaite, Edward

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 029913640X ISBN 13: 9780299136406

Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993

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In May of 1986, the poet Kamau Brathwaite learned that his wife, Doris, was dying of cancer and had only a short time to live. Responding as a poet, he began ""helplessly and spasmodically"" to record her passage in a diary. This is a collection of excerpts from that diary and other notes from this period of the Brathwaite lives. The book is a tribute to Doris Brathwaite and an exploration of the creative potency of love. The title comes from the nickname Brathwaite gave Doris, who was originally from Guyana, of part-Amerindian descent. Exposing the intimacy of his marriage, the book is the closest Brathwaite has ever come to an autobiographical statement. In examining his life with Doris he found the courage to reveal something of his own character. But, more than an autobiography, it is an extraordinary work of literature, much of it written in the expressive ""nation language"" of Jamaica and the Caribbean. Brathwaite filters his pain through his poetic gift, presenting it to the reader with all the poignancy poetry conveys.

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Formerly professor of social and cultural history at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica, Kamau Brathwaite is now professor of comparative literature at New York University.

Edward Kamau Brathwaite is professor of comparative literature at New York University. Among his many books of poetry and scholarship are Ancestors, Black + Blues, Masks, Islands, Days and Nights, Middle Passages, Our Ancestral Heritage, and History of the Voice. He received the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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• Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 029913640X
• ISBN 13: 9780299136406
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
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