| Description |
xvii, 482 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Critical perspectives series ; 26
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Critical perspectives ; 26.
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| Note |
"An original by Three Continents Press." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-478) and index. |
| Contents |
Part I: Walcott, Artist and Critic -- Society and the artist (1957) / Derek Walcott -- History and Picong...In the middle passage (1962) / Derek Walcott -- Necessity of negritude (1964) / Derek Walcott -- Leaving school (1965) / Derek Walcott -- The figure of Crusoe (1965) / Derek Walcott -- Tribal flutes (1967) / Derek Walcott -- Meanings (1970) / Derek Walcott -- The Caribbean: Culture or mimicry? (1974) / Derek Walcott -- Derek Walcott (1982) / Anthony Milne -- The art of poetry (1986) / Edward Hirsch -- -- Part II: The Critical Reception: A. "The Divided Child" 1948-1959 -- An introduction to the poetry of Derek Walcott / Frank Collymore -- A West Indian poet fulfills his promise / Harold Simmons -- Review of "Epitaph for the young" / Keith Alleyne -- Review of "Henri Christophe" / Aubrey Douglas-Smith -- B.B.C.'s broadcast of "Henri Christophe" / G.A. Holder -- "Ione": Colourful but academic / Norman Rae -- Company of players win praise for "Ione" / John Grimes -- Allegory in "Ti-Jean and his bothers" / Albert Ashaolu -- Derek Walcott's plays: Outrage and compassion / Theodore Colson -- -- Part II: B. "The Estranging Sea" 1960-1969 -- Some subtleties of the isle: A commentary on certain aspects of Derek Walcott's sonnet sequence "Tales of the Islands" / John Figueroa -- Readings of "Laventille" [sic] / Kenneth Ramchand -- Walcott and the audience for poetry / Mervyn Morris -- Dreamers and slaves - The ethos of revolution in Walcott and Leroi Jones / Lloyd Brown -- Big night music: Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" and the "Splendours of Imagination" / Robert E. Fox -- Withering into truth: A review of Derek Walcott's "The Gulf and Other Poems" / Gordon Rohlehr -- Walcott versus Brathwaite / Patricia Ismond -- -- Part II: C. "Homage to Gregorias" (1970-1979) -- Painters and painting in "Another Life" / Edward Baugh -- Breaking myths and maidenheads / Patricia Ismond -- Interlude for rest or prelude to disaster? / Victor Questel -- "O Babylon!" - Where it went wrong / Sule Mombara -- Reminiscences of Derek Walcott and the Trinidad theatre workshop / Lawrence Goldstraw -- Ripening with Walcott / Edward Baugh -- Displaced person / Edith Oliver -- Review of "Remembrance" / Mark McWatt -- White man, black man / Christopher Gunness -- Myth and reality in Caribbean narrative: Derek Walcott's "Pantomime" / Patrick Taylor -- Poems of Caribbean wounds / Benjamin DeMott -- The language of exile / Seamus Heaney -- -- Part II: D. "A Simple Flame" (1980-) -- Derek Walcott: Contemporary / Calvin Bedient -- One Walcott, and he would be master / Richard Dwyer -- Heir apparent / Sven Birkerts -- The painter as poet: Derek Walcott's "Midsummer" / Robert Bensen -- The poetry of Derek Walcott / Peter Balakian -- Divided child / J.D. McClatchy -- The "Collected Poems" and "Three Plays" of Derid Walcott / Bruce King -- Warner's "Beef, No Chicken" An inspired production / Judy Stone -- Review of "The Last Carnival" / Earl Lovelace -- On eurocentric critical theory: Some paradigms from the texts and sub-texts of post-colonial writing / Biodun Jeyifo -- Trinidadian Heteroglossia: A Bakhtinian view of Derek Walcott's play "A Branch of the Blue Nile" / Stephen Breslow -- Review of the "Arkansas Testament" / Vernon Shetley -- A poem in homage to an unwanted man / D.J.R. Bruckner -- Bringing him back alive / Mary Lefkowitz -- Contributors -- Biography -- Index |
| Subject |
Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Walcott, Derek. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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West Indies -- In literature.
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West Indies. |
| Added Author |
Hamner, Robert D.
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| ISBN |
0894101412 cloth $32.00 |
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0894101420 paperback $18.00 |
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