English Literature / Unit 18 ENL 1713 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Kamau Brathwaite and Caribbean Poetry
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The idea
Kamau Brathwaite, a Barbadian poet and historian who died in two thousand twenty, studied Black cultural life in Africa and the diaspora and the creole society of Jamaica. Criticism on disk links him with "nation language," which W-7 defines as creolised English used for narrative as well as dialogue.
In practice
Creole, diaspora, nation language.
Where people slip
Nation language is Caribbean English.
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