Buch, Englisch, 730 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1325 g
A Caribbean Life
Buch, Englisch, 730 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 1325 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-871131-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press
This is the first 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 The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America and Europe. Walcott is seen as someone driven by the need to justify his life and fulfil his talents before an unknowable God, but who, in mastering the ways of the world often regards himself as an example of fallen humanity. Besides offering an approach to Walcott as a poet, dramatist, theatre director, arts critic, and teacher, the book shows how his desire to be a painter influenced his vision and the way he works.
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- I. St Lucia: Formation and Early Writings
- 1: 1930: The Walcotts of St Lucia
- 2: 1938-43: Making an Artist, Harold Simmons, Dunstan St Omer
- 3: 1944-47: From Pantheist to Modernist, James Rodway
- 4: 1948-49: 25 Poems, Epitaph for the Young, Frank Collymore
- 5: 1950: The St Lucia Arts Guild, Henri Christophe
- II. Jamaica, Grenada, Greenwich Village: First Exile
- 6: 1950-54: University College of the West Indies, Poems, The Sea at Dauphin
- 7: 1954-57: First Marriage, Ti-Jean and his Brothers, J. P. Harrison
- 8: 1958: The West Indian Festival of the Arts, Drums and Colours
- 9: 1958-59: A Village Life, John Robertson, Malcochon
- III. Trinidad: Second Marriage, Second Home, Professional Writer
- 10: 1959-62: Little Carib Workshop, Alan Ross, Jonathan Cape, In a Green Night
- 11: 1962-64: Robert Lowell, Farrar Straus and Giroux, Gerald Freund, Selected Poems
- 12: 1965-66: The Castaway, Trinidad Theatre Workshop
- 13: 1967-68: Rockefeller Grant, First Tours
- 14: 1969-70: The Gulf, Dream, at Waterford and Los Angeles, Gordon Davidson.
- IV. Trinidad: Black Power, Preparing for Exile. Musicals
- 15: 1971: Dream on Monkey Mountain, in New York, The New Yorker
- 16: 1972: Ti-Jean in New York, Joseph Papp, Pat Strachan
- 17: 1973: Another Life
- 18: 1974: Joker of Seville, Galt MacDermot
- 19: 1975-76: O Babylon!, Sea-Grapes, Resignation
- V. Tobago, St Croix, New York: Starting Again
- 20: 1977-78: Remembrance, Pantomime, Joseph Brodsky
- 21: 1979: The Star-Apple Kingdom, Seamus Heaney
- 22: 1980-81: New York, MacArthur Award
- VI. Boston: Third Marriage, Making It
- 23: 1981-83: The Fortunate Traveller, The Last Carnival
- 24: 1984-86: Midsummer, Collected Poems
- VII. Boston: North American?, Sigrid
- 25: 1986-87: The Arkansas Testament
- 26: 1988-89: International Man of Letters
- 27: 1987-89: Teacher
- 28: 1990-91: Omeros
- 29: 1991-92: The Odyssey, The Nobel Prize
- VIII. St Lucia, New York, London: Laureate
- 30: 1993: Celebrations
- 31: 1994-96: More Journeys and Homecomings
- 32: 1996-97: The Bounty
- 33: 1997-99: The Capeman, Essays, Crowned Again?
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
