Brown, Stewart

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BROWN, Stewart

BROWN, Stewart. British, b. 1951. Genres: Novellas/Short stories, Poetry, Literary criticism and history. Career: High school teacher in Jamaica, 1972-74; Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria, lecturer in English, 1980-83; University of Birmingham, England, lecturer in African and Caribbean literature, 1988-; writer and editor. Publications: Writers from Africa: A Readers' Guide, 1989; Kiss to Quarrel: Yoruba/English, Strategies of Mediation, 2000. POETRY: Mekin Foolishness, 1981; Zinder, 1986; Lugard's Bridge, 1989; Elsewhere: New & Selected Poems, 1999. EDITOR: Caribbean Poetry Now, 1984, 2nd ed., 1992; (with M. Morris and G. Rohler) Voiceprint: An Anthology of Oral and Related Poetry from the Caribbean, 1989; New Wave: The Contemporary Caribbean Short Story, 1990; The Art of Derek Walcott: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1991; (with I. McDonald) The Heinemann Book of Caribbean Poetry, 1992; The Art of Kamau Brathwaite: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1995; The Pressures of the Text: Orality, Texts and the Telling of Tales, 1995; Caribbean New Voices, 1995; African New Voices, 1997; (with J. Wickham) The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories, 1999; All Are Involved: The Art of Martin Carter, 2000. Address: Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, England. Online address: s.brown@bham.ac.uk

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