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.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he has been called “one of the outstanding Canadian prose writers alive” (Gail Scott) and linked to the "New Narrative" movement[1], a term coined by Steve Abbott.[2]. Author of the legendary cult novel Wigger,[3] Braithwaite's work has been compared to Hubert Selby Jr., Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Dennis Cooper, George Orwell, and William S. Burroughs among other writers who defy definition, cross and connect broundries of language, sound and narrative.[citation needed]

His earlier youthful fascination with T.S. Eliot and Jean Genet underscores his "dub & scratch literature" set within a failed late 20th century reconstruction.[citation needed] His stories and novels are centered in a neighbourhood called New Palestine, a surreal post-punk and industrial hip hop community struggling against a wasteland in Victoria, British Columbia.[citation needed]

Braithwaite's work has been praised by Dodie Bellamy for its "sublime impenetrability".[4] and is fueled by 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, H.R. of the Bad Brains, Lee Scratch Perry, Sonic Youth and Einsturzende Neubauten.[citation needed]

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[edit] Bibliography

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

[edit] Works also appear in:

  • Punk rock/heavy metal band Iskra's self titled LP.
  • 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".[2] in the e-journal Sleepy Brain
  • Nocturnes 3 Review of the Literary Arts 2005
  • Biting Error: Writers Explore Narrative
  • Sidebrow e-journal.[3]
  • New Standards: The First Decade of Fiction at Fourteen Hills.[4]
  • The World Crisis Web (ed. Danny Dayus) Revolution is Bloody
  • Black Ice. [5]
  • The Rain Review of Books[6]

[edit] Recordings

Information on Iskra's debut album

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Gail Scott, “In the Future, Where Prose is Going”, Matrix 62: a special issue on New Narrative edited by Gail Scott and Corey Frost.
  2. ^ Aleander Lawrence's Free Williamsburg interview with Dennis Cooper
  3. ^ Lawrence Chua's PlanetOut review of Ratz Are Nice (PSP)
  4. ^ Dodie Bellamy, "Body Language", Academonia (San Francisco: Krupskaya, 2006): page 82; available online in Fascicle 2 (Winter 2005-2006) [1]

[edit] External links

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