Edward Baugh

Derek Walcott

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The story points to Walcott's seminal contribution to the emergence of Caribbean literature, with his response to the region's colonial history as a central factor.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of the West Indies Press
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 124mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9789766406455
• ISBN-10: 9766406456
• Artikelnr.: 50686977

Autorenporträt

EDWARD BAUGH is Professor Emeritus of English, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His publications on Walcott include Derek Walcott: Memory as Vision - "Another Life", Derek Walcott and an annotated edition of Walcott's Another Life (co-edited with Colbert Nepaulsingh). He is also the author of Frank Collymore: A Biography and the poetry collections A Tale from the Rainforest, It Was the Singing and Black Sand.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
1. Walcott, writing and the Caribbean: issues and directions
2. Connections and separations: from 25 Poems to The Gulf
3. 'What a man is:' Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays, The Haitian Trilogy and Franklin
4. 'Is there that I born:' Another Life, Sea Grapes, The Star-Apple Kingdom
5. The challenge of change: the dramatist after Dream
6. 'Here' and 'elsewhere,' 'word' and 'world:' The Fortunate Traveller, Midsummer, The Arkansas Testament
7. Narrative variations: Omeros, The Odyssey, The Bounty, Tiepolo's Hound
8. Homecoming: The Prodigal
Select bibliography
Index.