Tribute to Kamau Brathwaite (May 11, 1930 to February 4, 2020)

Authors

  • Timothy J. Reiss New York University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29565

Abstract

A tribute to the life and works of Kamau Brathwaite , a prominant Caribbean poet and scholar born and raised in Barbados, by  close friend Dr.Timothy Reiss.

Author Biography

Timothy J. Reiss, New York University

Timothy J. Reiss is Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. Since retiring he was for five years Distinguished Scholar in Residence at NYU, several times Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and is currently Visiting Scholar at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa. His recent books are: Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchange (2002) and Mirages of the Selfe: Patterns of Personhood in Ancient and Early Modern Europe (2003). Among his edited collections are Sisyphus and Eldorado (with Kamau Brathwaite, 1997; 2nd ed., 2002) and For the Geography of a Soul: Emerging Perspectives on Kamau Brathwaite (2001), as well as the 6-vol video recording of Between Caliban and Sycorax in honor of Brathwaite (available at Bobst Library, NYU). His more recent collections include: Music, Writing and Cultural Unity in the Caribbean (2005), Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Cultural Representations (co-ed, 2008-9) and Ngũgĩ in the American Imperium (in press). He is finishing a book on Descartes, arguing that his thinking evolved in response to his age’s political practice and thought, and another on the Renaissance as a stage in long continental and transoceanic intercultural exchanges.

Wave at Rozelle, St. Thomas by Emma Lewis

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Published

2021-08-27

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2020): "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"

Section

Tribute