PHILIPSBURG:— St. Martin literature is being studied at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), said Jacqueline Sample, president of House of Nehesi Publishers (HNP).
Hurricane Protocol by Lasana Sekou is the St. Martin poetry book that is being studied for the course on “Afro-Caribbean Literature and Music,” taught by Prof. Thomas Rothe at PUC, a leading South American university.
The section of the course entitled “Contemporary soundings in Caribbean literature,” looks at “polyphonic narration” in A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon James and “grounded poetry” through Sekou’s work.
Last year Rothe taught Hurricane ...
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