Derek Walcott

By:

John Thieme

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Contemporary World Writers

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John Thieme provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginning in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts - Caribbean, European and other - which have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time. It also offers a re-reading of his writing, which particularly emphasises strategies he has used to dismantle Manichean models of culture and society and his focus is on a travelling Odyssean protagonist who transgresses binary geographical divisions. Walcott's unpublished and out-of-print drama is discussed along with better-known plays such as "Dream on Monkey Mountain", "The Joker of Seville" and "Pantomime"; and the study incudes close readings of some of his best-known poems.

Author Biography:

John Thieme is Professor of English Studies at South Bank University -- .

Release date NZ

May 13th, 1999

Author

John Thieme

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate

Pages

272

Series

Contemporary World Writers

Dimensions

129x198x15

ISBN-13

9780719042065

Product ID

4028870

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