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Dread Poetry and Freedom: Linton Kwesi Johnson and the Unfinished Revolution
by David Austin
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Through an examination of the violence, musicality, and revolution of his poetry, David Austin brings Johnson's cultural and philosophical influences alive. Encompassing reggae music, the Bible, Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism, and feminism, as well as the radical politics of Aim Csaire, John La Rose, Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Johnson's poetry reveals itself as an important site of diaspora politics and struggle.
Probing the juncture at which Johnson's poetry meets his politics, Dread Poetry and Freedom shows the significant role art can play in bringing about social change in times of dread.
Through an examination of the violence, musicality, and revolution of his poetry, David Austin brings Johnson's cultural and philosophical influences alive. Encompassing reggae music, the Bible, Rastafari, and surrealism, socialism, and feminism, as well as the radical politics of Aim Csaire, John La Rose, Frantz Fanon, C. L. R. James, and W. E. B. Du Bois, Johnson's poetry reveals itself as an important site of diaspora politics and struggle.
Probing the juncture at which Johnson's poetry meets his politics, Dread Poetry and Freedom shows the significant role art can play in bringing about social change in times of dread.
Paperback
$26.95