Nobody's nation: reading Derek Walcott
"Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian societ...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states. According to Breslin, Walcott's work is centrally concerned with the West Indies' imputed absence from history and lack of cohesive national identity or cultural tradition. Walcott sees this lack not as impoverishment but as an open space for creation. In his poems and plays, West Indian history becomes a realm of necessity, something to be confronted, contested, and remade through literature. What is most vexed and inspired in Walcott's work can be traced to this quixotic struggle."--Publisher description. |
| Beschreibung: | IX, 333 S. |
| ISBN: | 0226074277 0226074269 |
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READING DEREK WALl
Paul Breslin
The University of Chicago Press
Chicago and London
CONTENTS
vii Acknowledgments
ix List of Abbreviations
I Introduction
II 1 Biographical Sketch
45 2 Fishing the Twilight for Alternate Voices:
The Early Poems arid Henri Christophe
83 3 The Young Playwright in Jamaica
102 4 Adam s Amnesia: The Uses of Memory
arid Forgetting
127 5 Dead Ends and Green Beginnings:
Dream on Monkey Mountain
156 6 Another Life: West Indian Experience and
the Problems of Narration
189 7 Pulling in the Seine / of the Dark Sea:
The Schooner Flight
215 8 Derek Sans Terfe: The Poetry of the 1980s
241 9 Epic Amnesia: Healing arid Memory in Omeros
273 10 Post-Homeric Derek: The Bounty
and Tiepolo s Hound
287 Epilogue: Toward a Just Evaluation of Walcott
297 Notes
323 Index
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