KAMAU BRATHWAITE'S CORPUS has been concerned with articulating a Caribbean cultural theory whose root conceptualization lies in history. His remapping of colonial history in his literary and scholarly work reveals a concern with redressing history’s tyrannies, and with refuting the assumption that New World Africans were irrevocably dissevered from their roots of African spirituality as a result of colonial slavery.
“Everything that happens in the universe has an impact on who I am, how I live, and what I write: thought, word, deed. Everything I think, I write, I speak has an impact on the world; like the...