*POETRY (Literary form), *LITERARY criticism, *IMMIGRANTS in literature, *CARIBBEAN literature, 20TH century, HISTORY & criticism
Abstract
Pedro Pietri's and Kamau Brathwaite's poems suggest that a transnational and translingual comparative approach to Caribbean literature will highlight similarities across nationalities born of parallel colonial histories and emigration experiences. While the texts themselves might not articulate a transnational or translingual perspective, their intertextuality suggests that such a relationship exists. This paper will focus explicitly on how history, language, and religion play out within poems about the emigrant experience in the metropolis. I will argue that colonialism and the transnational movement from the Caribbean to urban centers have fostered similar emigrant experience even among colonial subjects with different national identities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Published
2010
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