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The Joker of Seville & O Babylon!

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374179980
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1978 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The Joker of Seville, a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. O Babylon! brings life ro the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's exile to that country and has recently been popularized through the lyrics of reggae music.

The Joker of Seville and O Babylon!

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880376
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Joker of Seville and O Babylon! written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1959, Derek Walcott has directed and written for the Trinidad Theatre Workshop. The Joker of Seville, a comedy based on Tirso de Molina's El Burlador de Sevilla, was commissioned by England's Royal Shakespeare Company. Walcott's sensitivity to the pacing, meter, and lyricism of the original makes his first attempt at adaptation an extraordinary accomplishment. O Babylon! brings life the Rastafarian sect in Jamaica, which grew during Marcus Garvey's exile to that country and has recently been popularized through the lyrics of reggae music. Mr. Walcott's plays have been produced by the New York Shakespeare Festival, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Negro Ensemble Company. Dream on Monkey Mountain, the title play of his earlier collection, won the Obie Award for a Distringuished Foreign Play when produced in New York in 1971. It was deemed "a masterpiece" by Edith Oliver in The New Yorker. "Dream on Monkey Mountain," she wrote, "is a poem in dramatic form or a drama in poetry, and poetry is rare in the modern theatre. Every line of it plays....there is a sound psychological basis for every action and emotion."

The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre

Author : Martin Banham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521411394
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre written by Martin Banham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive alphabetical guide to theatre in Africa and the Caribbean: national essays and entries on countries and performers.

Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017

Author : Helen Goethals
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 152758402X
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Tributes to Derek Walcott, 1930-2017 written by Helen Goethals and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coming some five years after the death of poet, playwright, teacher and painter Derek Walcott, this book brings together essays, memoirs, and creative work addressing many aspects of his life and work. 20 years after Walcott became the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, this volume gathers renowned and emerging poets, friends, theatre critics and artists to lay bare their own relationship with a larger-than-life figure and cast their ‘various light’ on his by-no-means unproblematic legacy.

Literature of the Caribbean

Author : Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313088349
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Literature of the Caribbean written by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-08-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caribbean is an exotic but not too distant land, full of rich cultural traditions. The literature of the Caribbean reflects the social, political, and cultural concerns of the region and is a valuable tool for learning about the area and its people. This book includes chapters on roughly a dozen contemporary Caribbean writers. Along with plot summaries, these sections discuss major themes and give close attention to how Caribbean culture figures in the writer's texts. To help students conduct further research, each chapter cites works for further reading.

Ambition and Anxiety

Author : Line Henriksen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401203962
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Ambition and Anxiety written by Line Henriksen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparative study investigates the epic lineage that can be traced back from Derek Walcott’s Omeros and Ezra Pound’s Cantos through Dante’s Divina Commedia to the epic poems of Virgil and Homer, and identifies and discusses in detail a number of recurrent key topoi. A fresh definition of the concept of genre is worked out and presented, based on readings of Homer. The study reads Pound’s and Walcott’s poetics in the light of Roman Jakobson’s notions of metonymy and metaphor, placing their long poems at the respective opposite ends of these language poles. The notion of ‘epic ambition’ refers to the poetic prestige attached to the epic genre, whereas the (non-Bloomian) ‘anxiety’ occurs when the poet faces not only the risk that his project might fail, but especially the moral implications of that ambition and the fear that it might prove presumptuous. The drafts of Walcott’s Omeros are here examined for the first time, and attention is also devoted to Pound’s creative procedures as illustrated by the drafts of the Cantos. Although there has already been an intermittent critical focus on the ‘classical’ (and ‘Dantean’) antecedents of Walcott’s poetry, the present study is the first to bring together the whole range of epic intertextualities underlying Omeros, and the first to read this Caribbean masterpiece in the context of Pound’s achievement.

White Egrets

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880511
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book White Egrets written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A DAZZLING NEW COLLECTION FROM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POETS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY In White Egrets, Derek Walcott treats the characteristic subjects of his career—the Caribbean's complex colonial legacy, his love of the Western literary tradition, the wisdom that comes through the passing of time, the always strange joys of new love, and the sometimes terrifying beauty of the natural world—with an intensity and drive that recall his greatest work. Through the mesmerizing repetition of theme and imagery, Walcott creates an almost surflike cadence, broadening the possibilities of rhyme and meter, poetic form and language. White Egrets is a moving new collection from one of the most important poets of the twentieth century—a celebration of the life and language of the West Indies. It is also a triumphant paean to beauty, love, art, and—perhaps most surprisingly—getting older.

Moon-Child

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466874449
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Moon-Child written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moon-Child, the poet and playwright Derek Walcott returns to the island of St. Lucia for a lush and vivid tale of spirituality and the supernatural. In this lyrical new work, the crafty Planter (who may or may not be the Devil in disguise) schemes to take over the island for development. Between him and his goal lies the Bouton family, whose ailing matriarch strikes a bargain: if any of her three sons can get the Devil to feel anger and human weakness, the islanders will win the right to spend the rest of their days in wealth and peace. In a fable that reaches from St. Lucia's verdant forests to an explosive ending amid its plantation homes, Walcott has crafted a masterwork rich in flowing language and colorful Creole patois. With roots in Caribbean folklore and an eye toward the island's postcolonial legacy and complex racial identities, Moon-Child marks a remarkable new addition to the canon of one of the world's most prolific Caribbean playwrights.

The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature

Author : Michael A. Bucknor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136821740
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature written by Michael A. Bucknor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion is divided into six sections that provide an introduction to and critical history of the field, discussions of key texts and a critical debate on major topics such as the nation, race, gender and migration. In the final section contributors examine the material dissemination of Caribbean literature and point towards the new directions that Caribbean literature and criticism are taking.

Omeros

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466880406
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Omeros written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Masterpiece of Modern Epic Poetry Dive into the poignant verses of Omeros, a grand opus of epic poetry penned by Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. Told in multiple chapters and tracing two currents of history, this work offers an immersive blend of historic account and personal sentiment. Titled with the Greek name for Homer, Omeros elegantly traverses the surface and depths of history. While wrapping you in the intricacies of Caribbean literature and Latin American poetry, the verses of Omeros take you on an emotional journey through Saint Lucian landscapes. Celebrate the spirit of this significant contribution to Caribbean poetry and St. Lucian literature while unraveling the complex themes of 20th-century poetry, including slavery, Native American history, and more. “One of the great poems of our time.” —John Lucas, New Statesman

Tiepolo's Hound

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374105871
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Tiepolo's Hound written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-04-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel laureate, a book-length poem on two educations in painting, a century apart "Between me and Venice the thigh of a hound; my awe of the ordinary, because even as I write, paused on a step of this couplet, I have never found its image again, a hound in astounding light." Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men: Camille Pissarro--a Sephardic Jew born in 1830 who leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris--and the poet himself, who longs to rediscover a detail--"a slash of pink on the inner thigh / of a white hound"--of a Venetian painting encountered on an early visit from St. Lucia to New York. Both journeys take us through a Europe of the mind's eye, in search of a connection between the lost, actual landscape of a childhood and the mythical landscape of empire. Published with twenty-five full-color reproductions of Derek Walcott's own paintings, the poem is at once the spiritual biography of a great artist in self-imposed exile, a history in verse of Impressionist painting, and a memoir of the poet's desire to catch the visual world in more than words.

Walker and Ghost Dance

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 146688049X
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Walker and Ghost Dance written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two dazzling dramas on American themes from the Nobel laureate Derek Walcott, Walker and Ghost Dance. On a cold winter's day on the Dakota plains, Catherine Weldon receives a caller, Kicking Bear, bringing news of Indian rebellion. In the fort nearby, a tiny community splinters apart over how to react. In Ghost Dance, first performed in 1989, Walcott turns a story with a foregone conclusion -- Sitting Bull and his Sioux followers will die at the hands of the Army and Indian agents -- into a portrait of life at a crossroads of American history. In Walker, an opera first performed in 1992 and revised for its revival in 2001, Walcott shifts his attention east, taking for his subject David Walker, the nineteenth-century black abolitionist. In Walcott 's hands Walker becomes a classical hero for his people: a leader who is also a poet.

Postcolonial Literatures

Author : Michael Parker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333608012
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Postcolonial Literatures written by Michael Parker and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays reflects the intensified debate world-wide in literary theories, especially since 1968, and the growth of post-colonial literatures in English, which together have prompted significant re-readings of cultural histories in Africa, India, the Caribbean, as well as in America and Europe. Post-Colonial Literatures scrutinises the work of four writers: Achebe, Ngugi, Desai and Walcott, and their attempts to find new languages and new narratives to engage with the complex histories of their 'homelands'.

The Caribbean Postcolonial

Author : Shalini Puri
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403973717
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Caribbean Postcolonial written by Shalini Puri and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-01-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the long and varied history of discourses of cultural hybridity across the caribbean, this book explores the rich and fraught cultural crossings that are often theorized homogeneously in postcolonial studies as 'hybridity'. What is the relationship of cultural hybridity to social equality? Why have some forms of hybridity been enshrined in the caribbean imagination and others disavowed? What is the appeal of cultural hybridity to nationalist and post-nationalist projects alike? What can we learn from the hybridization of Afro-caribbean and Indo-caribbean cultures set in motion by slavery and indentureship? In answering these questions, this book intervenes in several important debates in postcolonial studies about cultural resistance and popular agency, feminism and cultural nationalism, the relations between postmodernism and postcolonialism, and the status of nationalism in an age of globalization.

Nation Dance

Author : Patrick Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253338358
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Nation Dance written by Patrick Taylor and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing with the ongoing interaction of rich and diverse cultural traditions from Cuba and Jamaica to Guyana and Surinam, Nation Dance addresses some of the major contemporary issues in the study of Caribbean religion and identity. The book’s three sections move from a focus on spirituality and healing, to theology in social and political context, and on to questions of identity and diaspora. The book begins with the voices of female practitioners and then offers a broad, interdisciplinary examination of Caribbean religion and culture. Afro-Caribbean religions, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, and Christianity are all addressed, with specific reflections on Santería, Palo Monte, Vodou, Winti, Obeah, Kali Mai, Orisha work, Spiritual Baptist faith, Spiritualism, Rastafari, Confucianism, Congregationalism, Pentecostalism, Catholicism, and liberation theology. Some essays are based on fieldwork, archival research, and textual or linguistic analysis, while others are concerned with methodological or theoretical issues. Contributors include practitioners and scholars, some very established in the field, others with fresh, new approaches; all of them come from the region or have done extensive fieldwork or research there. In these essays the poetic vitality of the practitioner’s voice meets the attentive commitment of the postcolonial scholar in a dance of "nations" across the waters.

Conversations with Derek Walcott

Author : Derek Walcott
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9780878058556
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Conversations with Derek Walcott written by Derek Walcott and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize, he was cited for "a poetic oeuvre of great luminosity, sustained by a historical vision, the outcome of a multicultural commitment." The lively interviews in this collection reveal Walcott's generous and brilliant intelligence as well as his strong, forthright opinions. He discusses the craft of poetry, the status of contemporary poetry and drama, his founding of the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and his views on a number of influential writers, including Eliot, Auden, Brodsky, Heaney, and Naipaul. Boldly speaking his mind, Walcott takes many controversial positions on a wide range of subjects, such as Caribbean and U.S. politics, literary instruction in American universities, the proper role of sound in modern poetry, and the "ego" apparent in contemporary American poetry, and problems of race. Whatever the subject, Walcott responds fully and candidly.

Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures

Author : Anders Hallengren
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814338125
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures written by Anders Hallengren and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-01-24 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change. It is also a book on self-confidence and presents different ways to self-knowledge and cultural individuality. Published in print for the first time, these studies and penetrating observations on topical issues, written by leading authors and intellectuals from many distant countries, make up one of the most intriguing and engaging avowals of our time.The Nobel Laureates are:Sir V S Naipaul (United Kingdom, born in Trinidad)Nadine Gordimer (South Africa)Derek Walcott (St Lucia)Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt)Patrick White (Australia)Ernest Hemingway (USA)Grazia Deledda (Sardinia, Italy)Amartya Sen (United Kingdom and the USA, born in India)Rabindranath Tagore (India)Nelson Mandela (South Africa)