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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 --- Littérature antillaise de langue anglaise --- Décolonisation --- 20e siècle --- Thèmes, motifs --- Critique et interprétation --- Dans la littérature