Kamau Brathwaite 's "Resistance Poems: the Voice of Martin Carter" is also in Stewart Brown's book All Are Involved: the Art of Martin Carter (Leeds: Peeple Tree, 2000), pp. 130-144.
Part of the vision depicted in the novels Middle Passage and Mimic Men is that the image local history is the scenery and landscape. Expresses idea that colonization creates nothing. It is obvious in a place, thrives there then disappears.
The "novel, as a more conscious artifact, is shaped in a more deliberate manner than poetry and revolutionary struggle in the novel is utilized with a well-defined intention. We will demonstrate these contentions by analysing the following novels: Bertene Juminer's Bozambo's Revenge, V. S. Naipaul's Guerrillas, and Alejo Carpentier's Explosion in a Cathedral." (author)
"It is my intention to explore the topic of Rene Depestre as love-poet, taking into account the recent prose works where they seem relevant. This author has so attracted more notice from critics as anti-imperialist than as troubadour, despite his prolific output of love-poetry." (author)
Glissant "published in 1981 two books which, although primarily concerned with the crisis identity and productivity that prevails in the French West Indies, must command the attention of any reader interested in the future development of the Caribbean region. The first is a socio-political study entitled Le Discours antillais; its companion piece is a work of fiction, La Case du commandeur. Their importance...for the rest of the region lie in their author's unique of sense of the historical and cultural ties by which Martinique and Guadeloupe are inherently attached to the surrounding islands. This attachment, however-- for which he has coined the term antillanite --he considers to be imperilled by France's intention to 'assimilate' her Overseas Departments not only politically, but culturally and economically." (author)
"[Examines] le développement historique et socio-économique des Caraïbes dans le roman de Paule Marshall: The Chosen Place, The Timeless People (publié en 1963), à travers la relation de deux femmes, l'une noire, l'autre blanche, dont les destins et l'héritage sont liés à l'histoire particulière des relations de genre caractéristiques de l'esclavage et de la vie sur les plantations." (Refdoc.fr)
Argues that the discipline of a total political and social revolution, it is stated, requires the self-discipline (in no way synonymous with control) and responsibility of the writer, as of any other citizen, in ensuring that the initial premises of the revolution are not betrayed, either by selfish failings on the part of the creator or by dogmatic temptations of functionaries. (Author)
