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DEREK WALCOTT
A CARIBBEAN LIFE |
| By: |
Bruce King |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£125.00 |
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£109.38 |
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| ISBN 10: |
019871131X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198711315 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 October, 2000 |
| Pages: |
730 |
| Description: |
This is the first literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. Bruce King works from published and unpublished sources, personal interviews and correspondence to draw a detailed picture of Walcott: from his life in the West Indies to his move to New York, and the implications of this relocation for his life and work. This is an unrivalled account of Walcotts life as a writer: his career, friendships, ideas, art, andinfluences. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-creole Roman Catholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate of England. The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the need to justify his life and fulfil his talents before an unknowable God, but who, in mastering the ways of the world often regards himself as an example of fallen humanity. Besides offering an approach to Walcott as a poet, dramatist, theatre director, arts critic, and teacher, the book shows how his desire to be a painter influenced his vision and the way he works. |
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24 pp black and white plates |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
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