LEADER 04325nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910809971803321 005 20240430184515.0 010 $a1-282-06962-4 010 $a9786612069628 010 $a0-226-07428-5 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226074283 035 $a(CKB)1000000000724197 035 $a(EBL)432196 035 $a(OCoLC)646808783 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000211672 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11185032 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211672 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10341714 035 $a(PQKB)10143409 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000117459 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC432196 035 $a(DE-B1597)524794 035 $a(OCoLC)781292914 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226074283 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL432196 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10286166 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL206962 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000724197 100 $a20010405d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNobody's nation $ereading Derek Walcott /$fPaul Breslin 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2001 215 $a1 online resource (345 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-07427-7 311 $a0-226-07426-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-322) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. Biographical Sketch --$t2. "Fishing the Twilight for Alternate Voices": The Early Poems and Henri Christophe --$t3. The Young Playwright in Jamaica --$t4. Adam's Amnesia: The Uses of Memory and Forgetting --$t5. Dead Ends and Green Beginnings: Dream on Monkey Mountain --$t6. Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration --$t7. "Pulling in the Seine / of the Dark Sea": "The Schooner Flight" --$t8. Derek Sans Terre: The Poetry of the 1980's --$t9. Epic Amnesia: Healing and Memory in Omeros --$t10. Post-Homeric Derek: The Bounty and Tiepolo's Hound --$tEpilogue: Toward a Just Evaluation of Walcott --$tNOTES --$tINDEX 330 $aNobody'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. 606 $aDecolonization in literature 606 $aLiterature and history$zWest Indies$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPostcolonialism$zWest Indies 607 $aWest Indies$xIn literature 610 $asir derek alton walcott, poet, poetry, playwright, plays, drama, creativity, creative writer, literary, literature, saint lucia, nobel prize, west indian history, historical, society, colonialism, colonial rule, cultural studies, culture, nation states, national identity, creation, contested, confrontational, archival research, interviews, major works, 20th century, postcolonialism, postcolonial, decolonization, henri christophe, dream on monkey mountain, omeros. 615 0$aDecolonization in literature. 615 0$aLiterature and history$xHistory 615 0$aPostcolonialism 676 $a811/.54 700 $aBreslin$b Paul$01711227 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809971803321 996 $aNobody's nation$94102404 997 $aUNINA