Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite

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Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite (born 1963) is a novelist, spoken word artist, dub poet, essayist, digital drummer and short fiction writer residing in Fernwood, Victoria, British Columbia.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he has been linked to the New Narrative movement, a term coined by Robert Gluck.[1] Braithwaite's work has been compared to Irvine Welsh, Dennis Cooper, George Orwell, William S. Burroughs, David Wojnarowicz and Amiri Baraka.[2]

His earlier youthful fascination with T.S. Eliot and Jean Genet underscores his dub & scratch literature set within a failed late 20th century reconstruction.[3] His stories and novels are centered in a neighbourhood called New Palestine. It's a surreal post-punk and industrial hip hop community struggling against a wasteland in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

He has a modernist and Fredric Jameson-influenced late modernist approach to writing and recording. His work draws influences from the musical and social realism of punk rock, opera, musique concrète, noise, hip hop, rap, industrial, black metal, country music and dub.

Braithwaite utilizes the intensity of the New York City No Wave scene and the Los Angeles and Montreal hardcore punk music subcultures to compose his narrative. His musical influences include Duke Ellington, Brian Wilson, Lee Scratch Perry, Sonic Youth and Einsturzende Neubauten.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Works also appear in: 2 Recordings 3 External links 4 Related Topics & Social Struggle

[edit] Bibliography

• Wigger (1995) ISBN 1-55152-020-6
• Ratz Are Nice (PSP) (2000) ISBN 1-55583-554-6.[4]
• Speed, thrash, death: Alamo, B. C. (with illustrations by Krista E. McLean & Max)
• More at 7:30 (Notes from New Palestine).[5]

[edit] Works also appear in:

• Punk rock/heavy metal band Iskra's self titled LP.[6]
• Fourteen Hills Literary Journal (San Francisco State University)
• Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art
• Kevin Killian's Mirage Periodical
• Bluesprints: Anthology of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature
• Redzone zine,
• Of the Flesh: Dangerous Fiction
• "Vanilla Primitive".[7] in the e-journal Sleepy Brain
• Nocturnes 3 Review of the Literary Arts 2005
• Biting Error: Writers Explore Narrative
• Sidebrow e-journal.[8]
• New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills.[9]
• The World Crisis Web (ed. Danny Dayus) Revolution is Bloody

[edit] Recordings

• Logopolis with The Killing Flaw
• Good Violence. D.U.N.
• How fast Does Light travel (for George Scott 3rd, James Chance and Lil G).[10]
• Olivet (H.A.T.s in the Square) (featuring Intifada Al Ard).[11]
• Unnerstated (Downpressin) from Hurricane Angel "Luckily I Was Half Cat"
• En Fins (Clichy Sous Bois) with Tolan McNeil (AKA The Giver).[12]
• London bomb sensation (hoffman sub dub the samo samo) lord patch vs david patrick
• Unnerstated (acapella) in Sean Lennon's Upstart Radio in Mindwalk 31: Driving to Baghdad
• En Fins (Clichy Sous Bois) in Mindwalk 42: Henry, Ann Coulter & the FCC.[13]
• Just A Sect For Whiteboys In Afrika

[edit] External links

• Information about Braithwaite
• etuxx.com ratten sind goil
• List of Black Canadians
• Skinhead Books
• Skinhead References
• London bomb sensation (hoffman sub dub the samo samo).[14]
• They wanna make my people unreal
• Notes from new palestine: oh gracious israel the agressive violence of the oppressor
• Notes from new Palestine: revolutionary suicidal tendencies (the war brought home).[15]

[edit] Related Topics & Social Struggle

• radiozapote:::comunidad sonora
• Joyce Chediac of the workers world forum.[16]
• Larry Holmes Voices of Resistance.[17]
• Imperialism & War.[18]
• Beyond the Mask - The ADL Spy Scandal.[19]
• Public Enemy.[20]
• Hon Mins Louis Farrakhan.[21]
• Final Call.[22]
• The Synagogue of Satan by Ashahed M. Muhammad.[23]