Aesthetic geography of south in Edward Kamau Brathwaite‘s poetical discourse : reading in the poem of south

Abstract EN

One of the broader questions the present paper attempts to raise and debate over, as a crucial issue, is the relation between poetry and geography in terms of spatial aesthetics.

It focuses on the southern hemisphere of the Caribbean territory in the historical, cultural and poetic lens of the Barbadian poet Edward Kamau Brathwaite.

The aesthetic analytic reading of Brathwaite’s poem of ‘South’ tackles a very sensitive, crucial and controversial issue of cultural and political challenge between North and South hemispheres..

The paper sheds the light on researcher’s recent theory that he comes to coin as ‘Poem Theatre’ which could be applied to the poem of South.

As a poet and cultural thinker, Brathwaite is keen to make his poetry concerned with a constant aesthetic process of reconstructing the African culture of his Caribbean people.