Required Reading:

• Kamau Brathwaite, from "Timehri"
• Gordon Rohlehr, from "West Indian Poetry: Some Problems of Assessment"

Optional Reading:

• Excerpts from History of the Voice, Brathwaite's theory of "Nation Language" [creole]
• Brathwaite reads from The Arrivants at the "Epicenter," Harvard University, 1988.  (All excerpts are from Watershed cassette C-1229, 1988 [out of print].)
  • Rights of Passage:
    • Prelude (pp. 4-8)
    • Folkways, parts 2 & 3 (pp. 33-4)
    • The Twist and Wings of a Dove (pp. 41-5)
  • Masks:
    • Tano, part 1 (pp. 151-2)
  • Islands:
    • Vèvè, part 3 (pp. 265-6)