Derek Walcott
A Caribbean Life
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 October 2000
- ISBN 9780198711315
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages730 pages
- Size 242x165x43 mm
- Weight 1325 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 24 pp black and white plates 0
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Short 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 Bruce King works from published and unpublished sources, personal interviews and correspondence to draw a detailed picture of Walcott: from his life in the West Indies to his move to New York, and the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, and influences.
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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 The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America and Europe.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.
King is good on the wider history, the mid-century social landscape, for example
Table of Contents:
I. St Lucia: Formation and Early Writings
1930: The Walcotts of St Lucia
1938-43: Making an Artist, Harold Simmons, Dunstan St Omer
1944-47: From Pantheist to Modernist, James Rodway
1948-49: 25 Poems, Epitaph for the Young, Frank Collymore
1950: The St Lucia Arts Guild, Henri Christophe
II. Jamaica, Grenada, Greenwich Village: First Exile
1950-54: University College of the West Indies, Poems, The Sea at Dauphin
1954-57: First Marriage, Ti-Jean and his Brothers, J. P. Harrison
1958: The West Indian Festival of the Arts, Drums and Colours
1958-59: A Village Life, John Robertson, Malcochon
III. Trinidad: Second Marriage, Second Home, Professional Writer
1959-62: Little Carib Workshop, Alan Ross, Jonathan Cape, In a Green Night
1962-64: Robert Lowell, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Gerald Freund, Selected Poems
1965-66: The Castaway, Trinidad Theatre Workshop
1967-68: Rockefeller Grant, First Tours
1969-70: The Gulf, Dream, at Waterford and Los Angeles, Gordon Davidson.
IV. Trinidad: Black Power, Preparing for Exile. Musicals
1971: Dream on Monkey Mountain, in New York, The New Yorker
1972: Ti-Jean in New York, Joseph Papp, Pat Strachan
1973: Another Life
1974: Joker of Seville, Galt MacDermot
1975-76: O Babylon!, Sea-Grapes, Resignation
V. Tobago, St Croix, New York: Starting Again
1977-78: Remembrance, Pantomime, Joseph Brodsky
1979: The Star-Apple Kingdom, Seamus Heaney
1980-81: New York, MacArthur Award
VI. Boston: Third Marriage, Making It
1981-83: The Fortunate Traveller, The Last Carnival
1984-86: Midsummer, Collected Poems
VII. Boston: North American?, Sigrid
1986-87: The Arkansas Testament
1988-89: International Man of Letters
1987-89: Teacher
1990-91: Omeros
1991-92: The Odyssey, The Nobel Prize
VIII. St Lucia, New York, London: Laureate
1993: Celebrations
1994-96: More Journeys and Homecomings
1996-97: The Bounty
1997-99: The Capeman, Essays, Crowned Again?
Notes
Acknowledgements
Sources
Bibliography
Index
