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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.

Thematology --- Walcott, Derek --- Literature and history --- Postcolonialism --- Decolonization in literature. --- History --- Knowledge --- History. --- West Indies --- In literature. --- 820 "19" WALCOTT, DEREK --- -Postcolonialism --- -Decolonization in literature --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- History and literature --- History and poetry --- Poetry and history --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WALCOTT, DEREK --- -Walcott, Derek --- -والكوت، ديرك --- デレク・ウォルコット --- -History --- 20th century. --- Walcott, Derek. --- West Indies. --- Decolonization in literature --- English Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- -Knowledge --- 820 "19" WALCOTT, DEREK Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WALCOTT, DEREK --- والكوت، ديرك --- sir derek alton walcott, poet, poetry, playwright, plays, drama, creativity, creative writer, literary, literature, saint lucia, nobel prize, west indian history, historical, society, colonialism, colonial rule, cultural studies, culture, nation states, national identity, creation, contested, confrontational, archival research, interviews, major works, 20th century, postcolonialism, postcolonial, decolonization, henri christophe, dream on monkey mountain, omeros. --- Walcott, Derek (1930-....) --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Décolonisation --- Postcolonialisme --- Antilles --- Critique et interprétation --- 20e siècle --- Thèmes, motifs --- Dans la littérature

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This Element looks at the physiological and social roles of taste and the proximal chemical senses. First, how we perceive food and people when we contact them is discussed. These perceptions help us identify what we are eating and with whom we are present and serves as an analysis of the complex scene. Second, the influence of taste in food choice, metabolism, and nutrition is considered. Next, the impact of taste and the proximal chemical senses in social interactions is examined, including social eating. Then, the role of taste and the proximal chemical senses in emotion is explored.

Taste --- Smell --- Flavor. --- Tastes --- Food --- Sensory evaluation --- Olfaction --- Chemical senses --- Senses and sensation --- Nose --- Gustation --- Tasting (Physiology) --- Drinking behavior --- Tongue --- Food preferences --- Physiological aspects. --- Analysis

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Why are many readers drawn to stories that texture ethnic experiences and identities other than their own? How do authors such as Salman Rushdie and Maxine Hong Kingston, or filmmakers in Bollywood or Mexico City produce complex fiction that satisfies audiences worldwide? In Analyzing World Fiction, fifteen renowned luminaries use tools of narratology and insights from cognitive science and neurobiology to provide answers to these questions and more. With essays ranging from James Phelan's "Voice, Politics, and Judgments in Their Eyes Were Watching God" and Hilary Dannenberg's "Narrating Multiculturalism in British Media: Voice and Cultural Identity in Television" to Ellen McCracken's exploration of paratextual strategies in Chicana literature, this expansive collection turns the tide on approaches to postcolonial and multicultural phenomena that tend to compress author and narrator, text and real life. Striving to celebrate the art of fiction, the voices in this anthology explore the "ingredients" that make for powerful, universally intriguing, deeply human story-weaving. Systematically synthesizing the tools of narrative theory along with findings from the brain sciences to analyze multicultural and postcolonial film, literature, and television, the contributors pioneer new techniques for appreciating all facets of the wonder of storytelling.

Film --- Fiction --- Literary rhetorics --- Literary semiotics --- Discourse analysis, Narrative. --- Motion pictures and literature. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Postcolonialism and the arts. --- History and criticism. --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Literature and motion pictures --- Moving-pictures and literature --- Literature --- Narrative discourse analysis --- Arts and postcolonialism --- Arts