How Long to Read Middle Passages

How Long Does it Take to Read Middle Passages?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 16 minutes to read Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Kamau Brathwaite's poetry offers stunning collages devoted to the history, mythology, and language of the African diaspora, and has gained him a world reputation. Middle Passages, his most recent collection, is his sixteenth poetry volume, but his first with an American publisher. With notes of protest and lament, the fourteen poems of Middle Passages address the effects of the Middle Passage of slavery on the New World, and celebrate great musicians (Ellington, Bessie Smith), poets, heroes of the resistance, and Third World leaders Kwame Nkrumah, Walter Rodney, and Nelson Mandela. And as the London Times Literary Supplement noted, it is "a poetry that moves between rage and tenderness, doubt and displacement to affirmation... Middle Passages is a potent and effective book, a work of passion and integrity."

How long is Middle Passages?

Middle Passages by Kamau Brathwaite is 134 pages long, and a total of 34,036 words.

This makes it 45% the length of the average book. It also has 42% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Middle Passages Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 5 minutes to read Middle Passages aloud.

What Reading Level is Middle Passages?

Middle Passages is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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