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Derek Walcott : politics and poetics
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- Creator
- Paula Burnett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2000]
- ©2000
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 380 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813018829, 081301882X, 0813028914, 9780813028910
- OCLC
- ocm44979794, ocm57653847
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-373) and index.
- The Apple of His Island: Introduction -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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