Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott

CONTENTS......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
List of Abbreviations......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
1 Biographical Sketch......Page 22
2 “Fishing the Twilight for Alternate Voices”: The Early Poems and Henri Christophe......Page 56
3 The Young Playwright in Jamaica......Page 94
4 Adam’s Amnesia: The Uses of Memory and Forgetting......Page 113
5 Dead Ends and Green Beginnings: Dream on Monkey Mountain......Page 138
6 Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration......Page 167
7 “Pulling in the Seine / of the Dark Sea”: “The Schooner Flight”......Page 200
8 Derek Sans Terre: The Poetry of the 1980s......Page 226
9 Epic Amnesia: Healing and Memory in Omeros......Page 252
10 Post-Homeric Derek: The Bounty and Tiepolo’s Hound......Page 284
Epilogue: Toward a Just Evaluation of Walcott......Page 298
Notes......Page 308
Index......Page 334