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Nobody's Nation - Reading Derek Walcott (Paperback)
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Nobody's Nation - Reading Derek Walcott (Paperback)
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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.
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