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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 333 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226074283 0226074285 9780226074269 0226074269 1282069624 9781282069626 9786612069628 6612069627 |