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Author : Derek Walcott
Release : 1986
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 259/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Collected Poems, 1948-1984 by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book Collected Poems, 1948-1984 written by Derek Walcott. This book was released on 1986. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes most of the poems in each of Walcott's collections as selected by the poet, and the complete text of Another Life.
Author : Edward Baugh
Release : 2006-03-09
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 176/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Derek Walcott by : Edward Baugh
Download or read book Derek Walcott written by Edward Baugh. This book was released on 2006-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott is one of the Caribbean's most famous writers. His unique voice in poetry, drama and criticism is shaped by his position at the crossroads between Caribbean, British and American culture and by his interest in hybrid identities and diaspora. Edward Baugh's Derek Walcott analyses and evaluates Walcott's entire career over the last fifty years. Baugh guides the reader through the continuities and differences of theme and style in Walcott's poems and plays. Walcott is an avowedly Caribbean writer, acutely conscious of his culture and colonial heritage, but he has also made a lasting contribution to the way we read and value the western literary tradition. This comprehensive survey considers each of Walcott's published books, offering a guide for students, scholars and readers of Walcott. Students of Caribbean and postcolonial studies will find this a perfect introduction to this important writer.
Author : Derek Walcott
Release : 2014-09-09
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 333/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays written by Derek Walcott. This book was released on 2014-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself, ignoring a coffin-maker who warns him he will die and enraging the people of the island. Hobain, half-awake in his desolate jail cell, terrorized by the specter of his friend's corruption, clings to his visionary quest. He will try to transform himself; to heal Moustique, his jailer, and his jail-mates; and to be a leader for his people. Dream on Monkey Mountain was awarded the 1971 Obie Award for a Distinguished Foreign Play when it was first presented in New York, and Edith Oliver, writing in The New Yorker, called it "a masterpiece." Three of Derek's Walcott's most popular short plays are also included in this volume: Ti-Jean and His Brothers; Malcochon, or The Six in the Rain; and The Sea at Dauphin. In an expansive introductory essay, "What the Twilight Says," the playwright explains his founding of the seminal dramatic company where these works were first performed, the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. First published in 1970, Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays is an essential part of Walcott's vast and important body of work.
Author : Derek Walcott
Release : 2014-01-21
Genre : Poetry
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Book Rating : 619/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 written by Derek Walcott. This book was released on 2014-01-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom, " and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."
Author : Paula Burnett
Release : 2017-08-08
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 256/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Derek Walcott by : Paula Burnett
Download or read book Derek Walcott written by Paula Burnett. This book was released on 2017-08-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?An important contribution to the study of Walcott?s poetry and plays.??Modernism/modernity ?Walcott, [Burnett] says, has assimilated western tradition to his own project, using it to create a new plural world of open-ended possibilities. . . . A book that should be of interest to any student of Walcott?s literature.??Times Higher Education Supplement ?This ambitious book takes in the full corpus of Walcott?plays, essays, interviews, etc., as well as the poetry?and argues the essential unity of his (humanistic) vision.??Wasafiri ?Burnett is very good on Walcott?s aesthetic and technical strategies, particularly the mythopoeic framework of his thought, and the epic form which he frequently employs.??New West Indian Guide ?Convincingly suggests that Walcott?s art radiates outward from St. Lucia to the West Indies, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Americas, becoming an art that honors and enlarges the English language and its multiple histories and usages.??World Literature Today
