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Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Silvio Torres-Saillant
15,283 words, approx. 51 pages
 In the following essay, examples of the Caribbean language, religion, and culture are teased out of Brathwaite's poems, leading to the conclusion that “Brathwaite insists on a theory of language, culture, and on a philosophy of history that have strong political implications insofar as they aim to liberate the Caribbean mind from the throes of a colonial heritage.”
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Critical Essay by J. Michael Dash
7,339 words, approx. 25 pages
 In the following essay, the author claims that Brathwaite views himself through the Modernist assumption of the poet as divine interpreter, an individual with the power to give one voice to multiple identities and histories. In the case of Brathwaite, this power is used to give voice to the Islands' African ancestry and colonial history.
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Critical Essay by Patricia Ismond
7,297 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, Ismond revisits and reconsiders a once-common comparison between Brathwaite and Derek Walcott. She finds Walcott by far the better craftsman.


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