Beating a restless drum
Subtitle: the poetics of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott
By: June D. Bobb.
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Brathwaite, Kamau, 1930- -- Criticism and interpretation; Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation; West Indian poetry (English) -- History and criticism; Caribbean poetry (English) -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- 20th century; Caribbean Area -- Civilization -- African influences; West Indies -- Civilization -- African influences; Caribbean Area -- In literature; West Indies -- In literature
Description: June Bobb explores the different ways the Anglophone Caribbean's most important poets engage in rewriting history and re-conceiving a visionary world in which it becomes possible to reconnect the fragments of a past destroyed or denied by the Caribbean's confrontation with the institutions of slavery and colonization.

In exploring common links as well as differences between Brathwaite and Walcott, and looking at their engagement with the mythology of the Caribbean's African experience, the author of this study identifies their contribution to the development of modern Caribbean poetics. Making a contribution to several areas of historical and literary scholarship, the author identifies a specifically Caribbean tradition out of which the poets have emerged.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-248) and index.