Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott

by Paul Breslin

Book Overview

Nobody's Nation offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226074277
• ISBN13: 9780226074276
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"