num_pages: 275
description: Here for the first time in a single volume is Edward Brathwaite's Caribbean trilogy - Rights of Passage, Masks, and Islands - a brilliant exploration of the predicament of the contemporary New World Negro. Through the tension of jazz/folk rhythm, through historical flashbacks, and excursions to Europe, New York and Africa, the poet interweaves the past and present of his Caribbean homeland - its natural beauty, its violent history, the values that sustain its people - into a vigorous and distinctive poetic statement.
language: English
title: The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
titlecomplete: The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
genres: Grad School, Poetry, Nonfiction, Literature, Post Colonial, History
ratings_count: 236
publisher: Oxford University Press