Dec 24, 2009
Another Life describes, celebrates, and reevaluates Derek Walcott’s life, art, love, landscape, language, history, Caribbean, and spiritual resilience. Walcott examines the standard view of Caribbean history and sees that colonization has left a distorted history, one filled with numerous gaps. In Caribbean history as Walcott finds it, the absence of facts renders the history as hollow as a coconut shell. Walcott’s intention is to provide autobiography, which he decorates with art, as an alternative to history, to the accumulation of dead facts or to the...
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