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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 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.
Linking extensive archival research and new interviews with Walcott himself to detailed critical readings of major works, Nobody's Nation will take its place as the definitive study of the poet.
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.
Linking extensive archival research and new interviews with Walcott himself to detailed critical readings of major works, Nobody's Nation will take its place as the definitive study of the poet.
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Publisher
University of Chicago PressYear
2009Print ISBN
9780226074276, 9780226074269eBook ISBN
9780226074283Table of contents
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Biographical Sketch
- 2 âFishing the Twilight for Alternate Voicesâ: The Early Poems and Henri Christophe
- 3 The Young Playwright in Jamaica
- 4 Adamâs Amnesia: The Uses of Memory and Forgetting
- 5 Dead Ends and Green Beginnings: Dream on Monkey Mountain
- 6 Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration
- 7 âPulling in the Seine / of the Dark Seaâ: âThe Schooner Flightâ
- 8 Derek Sans Terre: The Poetry of the 1980s
- 9 Epic Amnesia: Healing and Memory in Omeros
- 10 Post-Homeric Derek: The Bounty and Tiepoloâs Hound
- Epilogue: Toward a Just Evaluation of Walcott
- Notes
- Index