Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean

Brathwaite, Edward, Contradictory Omens: Cultural Diversity and Integration in the Caribbean, Mona, Kingston: Savacou Publications, 1974.

Kamau Brathwaite (born May 11, 1930, Bridgetown, Barbados) is widely considered one of the major voices in the Caribbean literary canon.[1] A professor of Comparative Literature at New York University,[1] Brathwaite is the 2006 International Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize, for his volume of poetry, Born to Slow Horses.[2] Brathwaite holds a Ph.D. from the University of Sussex (1968)[2] and is the co-founder of the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM).[3] He received both the Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships in 1983,[2] and is a winner of the 1994 Neustadt International Prize for Literature,[2] the Bussa Award, the Casa de las Américas Prize for poetry,[2] and the 1999 Charity Randall Citation for Performance and Written Poetry from the International Poetry Forum.[4]