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Book Synopsis The Joker of Seville and O Babylon! by : Derek Walcott
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."
Book Synopsis The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book The Joker of Seville & O Babylon! written by Derek Walcott and published by Farrar Straus Giroux. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Guide to African and Caribbean Theatre by : Martin Banham
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.
Book Synopsis Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott by : Robert D. Hamner
Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Derek Walcott written by Robert D. Hamner and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this collection are representative of the criticism that has followed Walcott's career from the 1940s into the 1990s. Ten entries by Walcott himself (including one not previously published and two vital interviews) are complemented by some 40 incisive essays and reviews, ranging from professional assessments to the rare, personal observations of Walcott's earliest mentors.
Download or read book Derek Walcott written by John Thieme and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Thieme here provides a comprehensive study of Derek Walcott's writing from its beginnings in the 1940s to his most recent work. Walcott's poetry and drama are set against the background of various contexts and intertexts--Caribbean, European and other--that have shaped him as a writer. The book contains a broad overview of Walcott's career for students and readers coming to the work of the 1992 Nobel Laureate for the first time.
Book Synopsis The Greatest Black Achievers in History by : Sylvia Lovina Chidi
Download or read book The Greatest Black Achievers in History written by Sylvia Lovina Chidi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book summarizes the lives of the great black people that have made great contributions to the lives of many Worldwide. The book has brief detailed biographies of black activists, scientists, educators, entertainers, musicians, inventors, politicians, authors, sportsmen & women, and others who have surpassed the normal to make historical marks on society. The biographical account of each individual provides relevant dates, events and achievements by the individual. There are pictures and excellent drawings that highlight particular moments in history. This is one of the greatest pieces of work on black history and it will appeal to everyone including, students, groups, universities, libraries, schools and anyone interested in history of black people in the World.
Book Synopsis Decolonizing the Stage by : Christopher B. Balme
Download or read book Decolonizing the Stage written by Christopher B. Balme and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of post-colonial drama and theatre. It examines how dramatists from various societies have attempted to fuse the performance idioms of their traditions with the Western dramatic form, demonstrating how the dynamics of syncretic theatrical texts function in performance.
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.
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
Book Synopsis Ambition and Anxiety by : Line Henriksen
Download or read book Ambition and Anxiety written by Line Henriksen and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 368 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 their language poles." "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." --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Conversations with Derek Walcott by : Derek Walcott
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.
Book Synopsis Nobel Laureates In Search Of Identity And Integrity: Voices Of Different Cultures by : Anders Hallengren
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)
Book Synopsis Nobel Writers on Writing by : Ottar G. Draugsvold
Download or read book Nobel Writers on Writing written by Ottar G. Draugsvold and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, the Nobel Prize for literature has given a very public voice to some of the world's greatest writers, and their responses to the honor--their acceptance speeches--have often been epochal. From the famed call to arms by William Faulkner to the multicultural song of Derek Walcott, from 1903's Bjornstjerne Bjornson to 1999's Gunter Grass, this collection of 28 speeches traces the ideals of the artists and the selection committee itself throughout the 20th century. Included are an introduction to each of the writers chosen, an abridged copy of the speech or lecture and a bibliography of works in English.
Book Synopsis The Haitian Trilogy by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book The Haitian Trilogy written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-05-15 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes three plays, written in verse, covering the history of the author's native West Indies as a four-hundred-year cycle of war, conquest, and rebellion. 'Henri Christophe' and 'The Haitian Earth' treat the legacy of Haiti's violent revolutionaries, under the leadership of Toussaint L'Ouverture, Jean Jacques Dessalines, and Henri Christophe, whose rebellion established the first black state in the Americas, but whose cruelty here becomes a parable of racial pride and corruption. 'Drums and Colours, ' commissioned in 1958 to celebrate the establishment of the first West Indian Federation, is a grand pageant linking the lives of complex, ambiguous heroes: Columbus and Raleigh, Toussaint, and George William Gordon, a martyr of the constitutional era.
Book Synopsis What the Twilight Says by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book What the Twilight Says written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first collection of essays by the Nobel Laureate includes Walcott's moving and insightful examinations of the paradoxes of Caribbean culture, including his noted Nobel lecture, and his reckoning of the work and significance of such poets as Robert Lowell, Joseph Brodsky, Robert Frost, Seamus Heany, and Ted Hughes.
Book Synopsis The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 by : Derek Walcott
Download or read book The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 written by Derek Walcott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection spanning the range of the writer's career includes his first published poem, his celebrated verses on violence in Africa, his mature work from "The Star-Apple Kingdom, " and his late masterpieces from "White Egrets."
Book Synopsis Scars of Conquest/masks of Resistance by : Tejumola Olaniyan
Download or read book Scars of Conquest/masks of Resistance written by Tejumola Olaniyan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining in detail the dramas of Baraka, Soyinka, Walcott and Shange, this study describes how these black writers are preoccupied with the invention of a postimperial cultural identity. It charts the foundations of an important aesthetic form, the drama of the African diaspora.
