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| Fram hnud From HISTORY OF THE VOIC| THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATION LANGUAGE IN ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN POETRY (1984) BARBADIAN POET Kamau Brathwaite (see biography in Section One) delivered this lecture at a 1979 Sacer a “ on.” Elaborating on a presentation by the Grave a parallel between South a's “pr fl a that of the Caribbean. Brathwaite’s primary foes hovgh, what he calls “nation language,” an undergroun ngage developed over time by slaves, calypsonians, sompelen, ani poets. Using examples from contemporary West In ln poet he carefully outlines and illustrates its main a onl iy, dacgic meter (a8 opposed to pentameter; an hens cence participation. Central to Brathwaite’s lecture is, ies ctween “the imported alien experience of the sm and “he a a 3 ™, but the language of slaves and labourers, “the power of the hurricane. that of South Africa): we have English, which is the \ f

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