Making History

| [English]| | 2008| | 9 mins| | Short Documentary |
Directed by: Karen D. McKinnon and Caecilia Tripp
UK
Atlanta Premier
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Date & Time: |
Saturday, March 27th 2010, 5.10pm |
| Venue: | Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture & History Heritage Education Center Auditorium, Fourth Floor 101, Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30303 |
Synopsis
Édouard Glissant is widely acknowledged as one of the most important Caribbean writers of the past half-century.
In 2002 Linton Kwesi Johnson became the only second living poet and first black poet to have his work published in Penguin`s Modern Classic series.
Both poets are major key-figures of this and the last century, Linton Kwesi Johnson, is the father of Dub poetry and Edouard Glissant, has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature for his writings on creolization processes and aesthetics of worldliness.
These two friends meet on a summerday…
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