“림보의 침묵”: 카마우 브래스웨이트(Kamau Brathwaite)의 아프리카-카리브 시학

Abstract

Mainly due to the colonial history that the Caribbean archipelago has experienced, the Caribbean studies has grown into a competent field of study that can open a new horizon of humanities. The Babadian Kamau Brathwaite is often regarded as one of the major authors of Anglophone Caribbean literature. It is true, however, that he has been treated as a peripheral figure compared with such big names like Derek Walcott, George Lamming, and Wilson Harris. This study is suggested as a reminder that he is no longer a minor voice but rather a revolutionary figure in terms of modern Caribbean literature. Brathwaite has investigated the question of cultural identity mobilizing such loaded terms as creolization, tidalectics, and nation language. In his poems Brathwaite intended to celebrate the power of language that the American creole has inherited and retrieve the African legacy melted in the language. Analyzing some key poems in Arrivants and Middle Passage, this study is trying to identify the ways in which Brathwaite traces the question of cultural identity through the lens of Africa and linguistic experiments. (The Catholic University of Korea)