Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life

by Bruce Alvin King

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This is the first full-scale 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019871131X

ISBN13:9780198711315

Release Date:December 2000

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:760 Pages

Weight:2.75 lbs.

Dimensions:1.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"

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Arts & Literature Authors Biographical Biographies Biographies & History Biography & History British & Irish Drama Entertainers Humor & Entertainment Latin American Literature & Fiction World Literature

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