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    3. Betray Them Both, or Give Back What They Give?: Derek Walcott's Deterritorialization of Western Myth

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Irvine,Alexander (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Fall 2005
    Published:
    United States: University of Central Arkansas
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Journal of Caribbean Literatures
    Journal Title Details:
    4(1) : 123-132
    Notes:
    The author examines race, language, and identity in Derek Walcott's poetry, reading Walcott's poetry as an extended meditation on the question of whether it is possible to exist within the English language and an Afro-Caribbean tradition, drawing poetic nourishment from each, or whether the attempt is a betrayal of both. Of mixed racial ancestry, a native speaker of French Creole who was formally educated in British colonial schools, raised Methodist on the Catholic island of St. Lucia, Derek Walcott occupies a peripheral place with respect to both English and Caribbean culture, it is noted. Throughout the course of his poetic career he has been criticized from both perspectives, either for "appropriating the Other" and putting it to use in the service of the dominant culture or for not assimilating that dominant (English) culture fully enough.;

    7. Painters and Paintings in Another Life

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Baugh,Edward (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    March-June, 1980
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    26(1-2) : 83-92
    Notes:
    Also in Critical perspectives on Derek Walcott. Compiled and edited by Robert D. Hamner. Washington, DC: Three Continents Press, 1993, p. 239-250.

    9. Redness of Blackness: Revisting Dereck Walcott's Mulato Aesthetics

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Oloruntoba-Oju,Motayo (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    Mona, Jamaica: Extra Mural Dept. of the University College of the West Indies
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Caribbean Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    52(1) : 12-25
    Notes:
    "The problem involved in the description of Caribbean aesthetics is not only due to the heterogeneity of Caribbean culture - given its antecedents - but also the complex cognitive and social orientation of the individual Caribbean artist." (author)