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Het Open Boek van Tolin Alexander, theatermaker
door Chandra van Binnendijk
Wat ligt er momenteel naast uw bed?
Gebroken wit van Astrid Roemer. Geen boek waarbij je achteroverleunt. Het is heel fragmentarisch, je moet wel scherp zijn om te weten welk personage aan het woord is. En The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman van Bruce Albert. Dat gaat over een sjamaan die door een wetenschapper wordt gevraagd naar de verhalen die nu van waarde zijn voor het in stand houden van onze wereld.
read on…Kamau Brathwaite in Liviticus – like the Psalmist in Babylon; like the weeping prophet
a book review by John Robert Lee
ST. MARTIN, Caribbean (2017 )— Liviticus, published in 2017 by House of Nehesi Publishers, is a new collection that is at once a moving confessional poem, in which Kamau Brathwaite writes honestly, frankly, disturbingly on what he calls his “cultural lynching.” read on…
Critical Caribbean Symposium 2013: Kamau Brathwaite
Van 22-23 november is er op de Bahama’s een literaire conferentie waarbij het werk van Kamau Brathwaite centraal staat. Brathwaite wordt als volgt omschreven: “Since the early 1950s, Kamau Brathwaite has been one of the leading producers of Caribbean cultural and intellectual discourses. Not just an award winning poet, the richness of Brathwaite’s verse is paralleled only by the depth of his scholarly essays in literary criticism, cultural theory, and history. With groundbreaking works including Four Plays for Primary Schools (1964), Rights of Passage (1967), Black an Blues (1976), Roots (1993), The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica, 1770-1820 (1971), History of the Voice: the Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry (1986)), Braithwaite’s place as a major contemporary poet, philosopher and original literary voice of the Caribbean has been well-established.”
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Where I See The Sun … I see harvest
by Fabian Ade Badejo
Thirty-one years is a long time to wait for a new harvest of voices, but in many respects, Where I See The Sun – Contemporary Poetry in St. Martin – the second anthology of poetry to be published on the island within two generations, was quite worth the wait.
read on…St. Martin: ‘It’s a wrap’ and congrats to 14 HNP authors for a busy February
St. Martin (February 22, 2013)—February 2013 proved to be extra busy for authors published here by House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP). While in its 30th anniversary year, “HNP is happy to see what is for us an unprecedented crush of activities by at least 14 of our authors in just 28 days in the Caribbean, the USA, and Israel,” said HNP president Jacqueline Sample. Among the busy set of writers taking part in Black History Month celebrations and literary activities, in the shortest month of the year, were Dr. Rhoda Arrindell, Amiri Baraka, Dr. Jay B. Haviser, Fabian Adekunle Badejo, George Lamming, Marion Bethel, Joseph H. Lake, Jr., Drisana Deborah Jack, Daniella Jeffry, Robert Romney, Chiqui Vicioso, Kamau Brathwaite, Nidaa Khoury, and Lasana M. Sekou.
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At Eurotast Symposium, organizers, panelists, and authors (L-R),standing, Dr. Temi Odumosu, Shujah Reiph, Fabian A. Badejo, Joseph H. Lake, Jr., Dr. Jay Haviser; seated, Daniella Jeffry, Dr. Rhoda Arrindell, Lasana M. Sekou, Clara Reyes. Photo © CLF.
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“I congratulate the writers for keeping busy, which causes a demand for their writings and their appearances in their community and in various parts of the world. I also thank the book reviewers and bloggers, and the organizers of activities who invited our writers as guests authors and keynote speakers at conferences, literary readings, school visits, library exhibits, and media appearances this month,” said Sample. Baraka and Arrindell were the busiest with numerous speaking engagements. At the EUROTAST Symposium (2/8/13), five out of the seven “First Voice” panelists and the conference’s St. Martin principal, were all authors published by the small press that has managed to produce books by leading authors from throughout Caribbean, the USA, and the Middle East.
Lasana Sekou’s English/Spanish book represents Caribbean Literature in Venezuela
Great Bay, St. Martin (November 21, 2011)—Representing what is new or canonical in Caribbean Literature is probably getting more difficult as the region’s national literatures continue to produce more writers within the various countries and territories. But independent Cuban scholar Emilio Jorge Rodríguez recently went to one of Venezuela’s prestigious universities to do just that.
“I was invited to give lectures during two weeks in October to the Master of Arts program on Ibero-American Literature, headed by Professor Arnaldo Valero at the Instituto de Investigaciones Literarias Gonzalo Picón Febres, of the Universidad de los Andes in Mérida, Venezuela,” said Rodríguez on Sunday. “As my last lecture in Mérida was about Lasana M. Sekou, they decided to launch Corazón de pelícano on October 14,” said Rodriguez.
And that is how the St. Martin book Pelican Heart – An Anthology of Poems by Lasana M. Sekou/ Corazón de pelícano – Antología poética de Lasana M. Sekou was launched as a contemporary example of Caribbean Literature at the University of the Andes (ULA).
In addition to the copies bought by students and other guests, review copies of the book were “presented to professors and researchers at ULA who would make use of it in the classroom and in their studies of Caribbean and Latin American literatures,” said Rodríguez. ULA is the second-oldest university in Venezuela, dating back to 1810; and ranks among “the top 30 research institutions in Latin America.” (wikipedia.com)
The ULA request for the Pelican Heart launch allowed Rodríguez to continue his introduction of the St. Martin author to Hispanic audiences. Rodríguez is the editor of Pelican Heart/Corazón de pelícano (HNP, 2010), in which all of the poems are translated into Spanish by Maria Teresa Ortega from the original English. The editor wrote the critical introduction to the 432-page book. There’s an extensive bibliography by the editor and the poet explaining a number of words, terms, symbols, names, dates, and language fragments in the poems.
At the ULA lectures Rodríguez focused critically on performance poetry and what he terms the “oraliture” of a region that has produced a stellar number of world-class authors, across its different language zones, in a short historical period, and in a relatively very small geographic space. Rodríguez included video clips of writers, poets, and storytellers he discussed as central to the graduate class theme: Kamau Brathwaite (Barbados), Linton Kwesi Johnson (UK), Mutabaruka (Jamaica), Paul Keens-Douglas (Trinidad & Tobago), Louise Bennett (Jamaica), Elis Juliana (Curacao), Mikey Smith (Jamaica), and Sekou (St. Martin).
The Pelican Heart collection, which Italian literary critic Dr. Sara Florian calls “an election” of Sekou’s poems from 1978 to 2010, has been previously launched with critical introductions in Barbados, Cuba, and Mexico. A book signing for Pelican Heart was held in St. Martin last February at the Jubilee Library as part of the Tribute to the Great Salt Pond concert by Sekou (poetry) and Nicole de Weever (dance).
Caribbean Writers Nominations
De OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature zal dit jaar voor het eerst worden uitgereikt tijdens het OCM Bocas Literatuurfestival in Port of Spain, Trinidad. De winnaar ontvangt een prijs van US $10.000,- Dit jaar zijn er tien schrijvers genomineerd, in de categorieën Poëzie, Romans en Non-fictie. In de categorie Poëzie zijn de volgende dichters genomineerd: Kamau Brathwaite met Elegguas, Kei Miller met A Light Song of Light en Nobelprijswinnaar Derek Walcott met White Egrets. Myriam Chancy (The Loneliness of Angels), Karen Lord (Redemption in Indigo), Rabindranath Maharaj (The Amazing Absorbing Boy) en Tiphanie Yanique’s (How to Escape a Leper Colony) zijn de genomineerde romanschrijvers. In de non-fictie categorie vinden we Andre Alexis (Beauty and Sadness), Edwidge Danticat (Create Dangerously) en Nobelprijswinnaar V.S. Naipaul (The Masque of Africa).
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