Kamau Brathwaite
1930 – 2020 · Barbados · Literature, History
Theorised 'nation language' and Caribbean creolisation.
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Inherited from1
- Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 – 2001 · Literature, Philosophy
Négritude's African recovery underlies Brathwaite's nation-language project.
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- Derek Walcott
1930 – 2017 · Literature
Their debate over creole and canon set the terms of Caribbean poetics.
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