Nobody's Nation

Nobody's Nation
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780226074283
ISBN-13 : 0226074285
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Book Synopsis Nobody's Nation by : Paul Breslin

Download or read book Nobody's Nation written by Paul Breslin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states. According to Breslin, Walcott's work is centrally concerned with the West Indies' imputed absence from history and lack of cohesive national identity or cultural tradition. Walcott sees this lack not as impoverishment but as an open space for creation. In his poems and plays, West Indian history becomes a realm of necessity, something to be confronted, contested, and remade through literature. What is most vexed and inspired in Walcott's work can be traced to this quixotic struggle. Linking extensive archival research and new interviews with Walcott himself to detailed critical readings of major works, Nobody's Nation will take its place as the definitive study of the poet.


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