A01=Paula Burnett
aesthetics
Author_Paula Burnett
Caribbean culture
Caribbean poetry
Caribbean writers
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critical assessment
culture
Derek Walcott
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essays
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interviews
literature
modernism
nobel prize winner
Paula Burnett
plays
poetics
political writing
politics
society
Product details
- ISBN 9780813054889
- Weight: 560g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Aug 2017
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Paula Burnett offers a new interpretation of the life's work of acclaimed St. Lucian poet, playwright, and Nobel Prize winner Derek Walcott. Often regarded as the radical voice of the Third World, his drama and poetry together form a coherent project designed to create a legacy for modern Caribbean society. Illuminating his ideology and the technique that informs his writing, Burnett discusses his unique approach to myth, identity, and aesthetics.
In addition to his poetry, the book draws extensively on Walcott's essays, plays, broadcasts, private interviews, and public appearances, some previously unpublished or unrecorded. What emerges is the picture of an epic poet with remarkable gifts working to impart the distinctive wisdom of Caribbean culture-a politically aware writer celebrating his people, place, and language. Burnett also reveals an artist with a message to the world: that a positive sense of identity can be built out of negative circumstances like injustice and exploitation, if only creativity is mobilized.
The book serves as a critical study for more experienced scholars and as a solid introductory text for students of Walcott’s work. Its readable and well-organized style also makes it appealing to anyone with a general interest in poetry.
In addition to his poetry, the book draws extensively on Walcott's essays, plays, broadcasts, private interviews, and public appearances, some previously unpublished or unrecorded. What emerges is the picture of an epic poet with remarkable gifts working to impart the distinctive wisdom of Caribbean culture-a politically aware writer celebrating his people, place, and language. Burnett also reveals an artist with a message to the world: that a positive sense of identity can be built out of negative circumstances like injustice and exploitation, if only creativity is mobilized.
The book serves as a critical study for more experienced scholars and as a solid introductory text for students of Walcott’s work. Its readable and well-organized style also makes it appealing to anyone with a general interest in poetry.
Paula Burnett, lecturer in English at Brunel University in London, is the editor of Caribbean Verse in English (1986). She is the author of numerous articles on Caribbean and other postcolonial literatures in publications such as Ariel and the Journal of Commonwealth Literature and is well known in the United Kingdom as a literary journalist.
