Namsetoura & the Companion Stranger

by Kamau Brathwaite

Kamau Brathwaite is renowned as a Caribbean poet, literary critic, and cultural historian. He has published in a variety genres--poetry, fiction, autobiography, critical essay, and combinations of all of these. He is a teacher and a publisher as well a creative writer and relentless researcher. His works include: The Development of Creole Society in Jamaica 1770-1820; The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy: Rights of Passage-Masks-Islands; Ancestors: A Reinvention of Mother Poem, Sun Poem, and X-Self; Contradictory Omens; Roots, Zea Mexican Diary, Barabajan Poems, and Magical Realism. His honors and awards include the Neustadt International Award for Literature; the Casa de las Americas Prize for poetry; the Casa de las Americas Prize for Literary Criticism; Guggenheim, Fulbright, and Ford Foundation Fellowships. He has been Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University since 1993.