Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life
This is the first full-scale literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St. Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-Creole RomanCatholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate of England. The author had had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, NorthAmerica, and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-871131-5
- EAN: 9780198711315
- Produktnummer: 22683513
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 760 S.
- Masse: H24.3 cm x B16.5 cm x D4.9 cm 1'334 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 1334
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Bruce King is a freelance editor and writer. He has held professorships or distinguished visiting professorships at Ahmadu Bello (Nigeria), Lagos, Stirling, Windsor (Canada), Canterbury (NZ), Ben Gurion (Israel), Angers (France) Paris III, Paris VII, and North Alabama.
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