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Nobody's nation : reading Derek Walcott / Paul Breslin.
LIBRA PR9272.9.W3 Z545 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Breslin, Paul.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Walcott, Derek--Knowledge and learning--History.
- Walcott, Derek.
- History.
- Literature and history--West Indies--History--20th century.
- Literature and history.
- Postcolonialism--West Indies.
- Postcolonialism.
- Decolonization in literature.
- West Indies--In literature.
- West Indies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 333 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2001.
- Contents:
- 2 "Fishing the Twilight for Alternate Voices": The Early Poems and Henri Christophe 45
- 3 The Young Playwright in Jamaica 83
- 4 Adam's Amnesia: The Uses of Memory and Forgetting 102
- 5 Dead Ends and Green Beginnings: Dream on Monkey Mountain 127
- 6 Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration 156
- 7 "Pulling in the Seine / of the Dark Sea": "The Schooner Flight" 189
- 8 Derek Sans Terre: The Poetry of the 1980s 215
- 9 Epic Amnesia: Healing and Memory in Omeros 241
- 10 Post-Homeric Derek: The Bounty and Tiepolo's Hound 273
- Epilogue: Toward a Just Evaluation of Walcott 287.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0226074269
- 0226074277
- OCLC:
- 46729422
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