TY  - BOOK
AU  - King, Bruce,
TI  - Derek Walcott: a Caribbean life 
SN  - 019871131X
AV  - PR9272.9.W3 Z7 2000
U1  - 811/.54B 21
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Walcott, Derek.
KW  - Walcott, Derek
KW  - Walcott, Derek,
KW  - Authors, Saint Lucian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Biography
KW  - Saint Lucians
KW  - United States
KW  -  Ecrivains antillais
KW  - 20e si ecle
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Litt erature antillaise de langue anglaise
KW  - ram
KW  - Caribbean Area
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 665-688) and indexes
N2  - "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. The author has had access to letters, diaries, uncollected and unpublished writings, and conducted numerous interviews in the Caribbean, North America, and Europe.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."--Jacket
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