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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Derek Walcott."”.
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Witness to woundedness in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott.
… how Seamus Heaney, Natasha Trethewey, and Derek Walcott poetically bear witness to historical wounds expressed on both personal and collective levels. I first focus on how in North (1975) Heaney explores the sectarian violence of the Troubles in Northern Ireland and exposes the scapegoating …
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"Still persuade us to rejoice" : witness, place, and gratitude in W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's poetry.
My dissertation considers W.H. Auden and Derek Walcott's stereoscopic poetic witness. It focuses on movement, place, and gratitude in the Atlantic world, as both authors recurrently travel beyond national boundaries. Both poets use a stereoscopic vision, a nuanced imaginative rendering of the …
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"What was repeated had weight" : ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück.
… ordinary rituals in the poetry of Donald Hall, Derek Walcott, Seamus Heaney, and Louise Glück. Their poetic speakers perform ordinary rituals as a response to the difficult, wounding situations they face, including losses of family members (Hall), racial tensions that span generations (Walcott), …
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That terrible vowel, that I : autobiography and Derek Walcott's Another life
… Another Life by exploring the linguistic means Derek Walcott uses to set up subjectivity in the text. In particular, I respond to Emile Benveniste's question: "what does I refer to" by examining the role of the first person pronoun in Another Life. In chapter one, I introduce the problem of …
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When the Poet Is a Stranger: Poetry and Agency in Tagore, Walcott, and Darwish
… The poets examined here, Rabindranath Tagore, Derek Walcott, and Mahmoud Darwish--arguably among the best-known poets of the modern world--sought to be heard by various sensibilities and succeeded in reaching them. Outside the fold of the Western Metropolitan world, they as a trio have much to …
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Raw Feelings: Ecologies of Race and Sexuality in Contemporary American Literature
… Feelings reads contemporary literary texts, from Derek Walcott to Carmen Maria Machado, that are characterized by what I call “raw feeling.” I theorize this term as narrative moments that turn to more-than-human raw matter—for instance, the pulpy flesh of fruit, fresh roadkill, or even bad …
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Creolizing the canon: engagements with legacy and relation in contemporary postcolonial Caribbean writing
… direct canonical rewritings of Maryse Condé and Derek Walcott are the subject of Chapter Four. Behind these readings of the contemporary Caribbean canon lies a fundamental question: what makes these engagements with legacy a postcolonial, rather than counter-colonial, response? In turn, through a …
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Imagined Islands: A Caribbean Tidalectics
… on/of islands. Emerging from literary work by Derek Walcott, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Édouard Glissant, and Alejo Carpentier, the chapters in Section 2 are organized around three key concepts associated with insularity -tropical light, the coast, and the sea/ocean- and the ways in which they …
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Traces de terre, traces d'encre... La rappresentazione dello spazio nella letteratura caraibica. (Francofona e Anglofona)
… West Indies, Youma) and the contemporary authors Derek Walcott (Omeros, Map of the New World, What the Twilight says) and Edward Kamau Brathwaite (The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy). The Anglophone voice of the Caribbean archipelago brings a very interesting contribution to the critical idea of a …
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"The Splendours of Imagination." The Transformative and Regenerative Power of Myth in Soyinka's and Walcott's Theatre
… potentialities of mythical patters, Soyinka and Walcott transcend the allegedly petrifying character of tradition and enter a syncretic dimension of creativity capable of engendering a new cultural ethos.