Nobody's nation : reading Derek Walcott /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Breslin, Paul
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
Temas:
Walcott, Derek > Knowledge > History.
Walcott, Derek- > Et l'histoire.
Walcott, Derek
Walcott, Derek, > 1930-2017.
Walcott, Derek.
1900-1999
Decolonization in literature.
Literature and history > West Indies > History > 20th century.
Postcolonialism > West Indies.
Littérature et histoire > Antilles > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Postcolonialisme > Antilles.
Décolonisation dans la littérature.
Antilles dans la littérature.
POETRY > American > General.
History
Decolonization in literature
Literature
Literature and history
Postcolonialism
Nationalbewusstsein > Motiv
West Indies > In literature.
Antilles > Dans la littérature.
West Indies
Caribbean region.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Biographical sketch
  • "Fishing the twilight for alternate voices" : the early poems and Henri Christophe
  • The young playwright in Jamaica
  • Adam's amnesia : the uses of memory and forgetting
  • Dead ends and green beginnings : Dream on monkey mountain
  • Another life : West Indian experience and the problems of narration
  • "Pulling in the seine / of the dark sea" : "The schooner flight"
  • Derek sans terre : the poetry of the 1980s
  • Epic amnesia : healing and memory in Omeros
  • Post-Homeric Derek : The bounty and Tiepolo's hound.

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