Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott Paperback - 2001
by Paul Breslin
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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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- Title Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott
- Author Paul Breslin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition.
- Pages 340
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL
- Date 2001-10
- ISBN 9780226074276 / 0226074277
- Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
- Dimensions 8.94 x 6 x 0.75 in (22.71 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Decolonization in literature, Walcott, Derek - Knowledge - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001002128
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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