Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's PoetryUniversity of the West Indies Press, 2001 - 309 páginas Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992, Derek Walcott is the most important West Indian poet writing in English today, and his success has inspired many aspiring Caribbean writers. He began his career divided between his driving commitment to the revolutionary cause of his native Caribbean and his strong ties to a Western literary tradition. In his works he has studied the conflict between the heritage of European and West Indian culture. Abandoning Dead Metaphors is a critical appreciation of the works produced in Walcott's Caribbean phase (1946-1981). The poetry of this phase contains most of the seminal ideas and values that underlie his total achievement. This study closely examines Walcott's definitive use of metaphor, through which he conducts a deeply philosophical discourse focusing on the juxtaposition of his concern with a regional history of negation and his immersion in the Western literary and cultural tradition of the colonizer. Studying the works of this period also allows for a full exposure of Walcott's engagement with the landscape, culture and society of the region. Ismond's work is essential reading for students of Caribbean literature and scholars of Ne |
Contenido
Chapter | 17 |
Chapter Three | 43 |
Chapter Four | 103 |
AlterNative Metaphors in Fulfilment | 140 |
Notes | 281 |
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Abandoning Dead Metaphors: The Caribbean Phase of Derek Walcott's Poetry Patricia Ismond Vista de fragmentos - 2001 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abandoning Dead Metaphors achievement aesthetic Africa Amerindian ancestral Anna Anse La Raye archetypal artist aspect C.L.R. James Caribbean Caribs Castaway Castries chapter colonizer's consciousness context creative creole crisis Crusoe culture dead metaphors death Derek Walcott destiny dialectical dream earlier echoes effort elemental engagement existential experience explored expression Faber faith figure final forest Green Night Gregorias Gulf Guyana human ideal imagination indigenous island Jamaica journey landscape Laventille leaping Caribs legacy light lyrical Manley meaning memory metaphysical middle passage motif muse of history mythic naming narrative native natural negation Old World original perspective phase poem poet poetry political Port of Spain portrait primal racial Rampanalgas Rastafarians reality reflection region represents revolutionary Schooner Flight seminal sequence setting Shabine significant Simmons Simple Flame society spirit St Lucia St Omer Star-Apple Kingdom struggle theme tion Trinidad truth Twilight vision visionary West Indian West Indian Literature
Referencias a este libro
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English C. L. Innes Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |