ARTS1031 Lecture 16: 16. Derek Walcott Selected Poems
16 Oct 2018
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Derek walcott - 20th c - moving towards more contemporary literature. Themes that come up more often in modernism - coloniality, colonialism by britain, post- colonialism. English became a global language though colonialism (as well as additional / differing. 1930 castries, st lucia - west indies (caribbean) Descendent of slaves, writing in english in a post-colonial nation. Educated at university of the west indies in kingston, jamaica. First collection in a green night: poems 1948-1960 (pub. St lucia - country in the caribbean (small island) - first was a french colony, then british. Gained full independence from britain in 1979 - relatively late. Colonialism here - extracting resources, growing sugar, forced human labour, slave labour, taking people from west coast of africa and forcing them to work here. Walcott writes about what it means to be descendents of this time - of the survivors of the middle passage, the slaves who were brought there.
