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Derek Walcott : politics and poetics
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Paula Burnett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Gainesville, Florida : University Press of Florida, 2000
- 2000
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (308 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9780813063256, 0813063256
- OCLC
- on1000451382
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface to the Paperback Edition -- Preface -- The Apple of His Island: Introduction -- Part I. Ideology -- 1. "Becoming Home": Modeling the Caribbean Subject -- 2. "Is There That I Born": The Gift of Place -- 3. "Where Else to Row, but Backward?" Dealing with History -- 4. "The Mind … Sees Its Mythopoeic Coast": Manipulating Myth -- Part II. Craft -- 5. "The Smell of Our Own Speech": The Tool of Language -- 6. "A Crystal of Ambiguities": The Craft of Mythopoeic Imagery -- 7. Appropriating Heirlooms: The Fortunate Traveler's Intertext -- 8. "The Theatre of Our Lives": Founding an Epic Drama -- 9. "All You Stick Together": The Epic Federation Dream -- 10. "The Moment of Stillness": The Arrivants' Last Carnival -- 11. "The Joy of the Ghost Dance": The American Epic -- 12. "The Echo of the Shape": Metamorphosis of the Homeric -- "To Praise Lovelong": Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index