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    2. West Indian Gallery

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Ramsaran,J. A. (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    June, 1975
    Published:
    Chicago: Johnson Pub. Co
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Black World
    Journal Title Details:
    24(8) : 39-48

    7. 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.;