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(1930-2020) Poet. Kamau Brathwaite was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and died in Barbados.

Full Name

Kamau Brathwaite

Locations

New York

Author's Timeline


1930

BIRTH

Kamau Brathwaite was born Lawson Edward Brathwaite in Bridgetown, Barbados, on May 11, 1930.

1964

LITWORK

Four Plays for Primary Schools
Longman
0582581265 ISBN-13: 978-0582581265

1967

LITWORK

Rights Of Passage
Oxford University Press
1125159146 ISBN-13: 978-1125159149
Collection of poetry.

1968

LITWORK

Masks
Oxford University Press
0192112708 ISBN-13: 978-0192112705
Collection of poetry.

1969

LITWORK

Islands
Oxford University Press
0192112848 ISBN-13: 978-0192112842
Collection of poetry.

1976

LITWORK

Black + Blues
Casa de las Americas

Collection of poetry.

1987

LITWORK

X/Self
Oxford University Press
192819871
Collection of poetry.

1992

OTHER

Dr. Brathwaite began teaching comparative literature at New York University in 1992.

1992

LITWORK

Middle Passages
Bloodaxe Books
1852242248 ISBN-13: 978-1852242244
Collection of poetry.

2001

LITWORK

Ancestors
New Directions
0811214486 ISBN-13: 978-0811214483
Collection of poetry.

2005

LITWORK

Born To Slow Horses
Wesleyan University Press
0819567450 ISBN-13: 978-0819567451
Collection of poetry.

2010

LITWORK

Elegguas
Wesleyan University Press
978-0819569431
Collection of poetry.

2020

DEATH

Kamau Brathwaite died at his home in Barbados on February 4, 2020.

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