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 society sinc...

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1. Verfasser: Breslin, Paul
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
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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. Walco.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 333 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
ISBN:9780226074283
0226074285
9780226074269
0226074269
1282069624
9781282069626
9786612069628
6612069627

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