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    Exploring History, Migration and Social Experience in Select Poems of Edward Kamau Brathwaite
    (Benin Journal of Literary Studies (BJLS) Vol. 1, No. 1, 2019-12) Onwuka, Edwin; Eyisi, Joy
    This study examines Edward Kamau Brathwaite’s exploration of migration and social experience in his poetry as a vehicle of appraising Caribbean realities. Brathwaite’s poems will be interpreted using New Historicism as literary tool with a view to highlighting migration/journey motif as fundamental in exploring social realities as well as the human condition in the Caribbean society. This paper is a qualitative and library-based study of Brathwaite’s poems as literary art, focussing specifically on interpretation of their content which explores migration and social experience in the Caribbean world. Four selected poems are engaged in the study for their distinction in reflecting core concerns of the Caribbean enclave specifically dealing with social conditions and migration. These four poems are also used to highlight Brathwaite’s style to enhance the forcefulness of his message in them.
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    Identity, History and Caribbean Experience in Select Poems of Derek Walcott
    (Covenant Journal of Language Studies (CJLS) Vol. 10, No. 2,, 2022-12) Onwuka, Edwin; Eyisi, Joy
    This study examines how history has shaped social identity and the impacts of both on Caribbean experience in Derek Walcott’s poetry. Using New Historicism as theoretical framework, it critiques some Caribbean historical realities highlighted in the selected poems and their impacts on society at individual and societal levels with particular emphasis on identity. Four poems from different collections of Walcott are analyzed in this paper, which are “Codicil”, “The River”, “Love after Love” and “The Sea is History”. The conclusions of this critical engagement show clearly that identity in Caribbean reality is inescapably tied to the traumatic history of displacement, enslavement, migration and alienation of the Caribbean peoples.