Savacou

Savacou Magazine was founded in 1970 by Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Andrew Salkey, and John La Rose. Savacou grew out of the Caribbean Artists Movement of the 1960's that was mostly concerned with Caribbean artistic production and with consolidating a broad artistic alliance between all 'Third World' peoples.

Savacou was the subject of regional controversy in 1970, with the double issue 3/4, "New Writing 1970: An anthology of poetry and verse." Featuring oral-based poetics, performance poetry and Creole verse, the issue questioned traditional divisions between words and music, literature and street culture, textuality and orality, antagonizing standard literary formats and in turn provoking major debates and discussions in Caribbean literary circles.^[1]

The journal ceased publication in 1980 with issue 15.

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References

1. ^ Baugh, Edward. "A History of Poetry." A history of literature in the Caribbean. Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001.