title: The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy--Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
author:  Edward Kamau Brathwaite 
description: <br>"To my mind a major poem and a major work of New Literature in English....Braithwaite and Derek Walcott should be required reading in contemporary poetry."--Ashley Halp, <em>University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka</em>
zlib_text: EDWARD BRATHWAITE
  THE ARRIVANTS
  A New World Trilogy
  Rights of Passage
  Islands
  Masks
  
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  The Arrivants
  
  EDWARD BRATHWAITE
  The Arrivants
  A New World Trilogy
  OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
  
  Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford 0x2 6dp
  OXFORD LONDON GLASGOW
  NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON
  KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO
  DELHI BOMBAY
  C:AL(.UTTA MADRAS KARACHI
  NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN
  isbnO 199111030
  © Edward Brathwaite 1967, 1968, 1969, 1973
  These poems were first published by Oxford University Press in three separate volumes:
  Rig/?fs of Passage (1967), Masks (1968), and Is/am^s (1969).
  First issued as an Oxford
  University Press paperback by Oxford University Press London 1973
  Reprinted 1978 and 1 981
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