Dream on Monkey Mountain | Essays and Criticism
- Makak and Corporal Lestrade: Their Journey of Self-Discovery
In this essay, Annette Petrusso compares Makak's journey of self-discovery with that of the one he imagines for Corporal Lestrade in Dream on Monkey Mountain.
- Mimeticism, Reactionary Nativism, and the Possibility of Postcolonial Identity in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain
In this essay on Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, author Patrick Colm Hogan examines the themes of colonization, poverty, and the search for social and personal identity in a world where racial subjugation is absolute and blackness absolutely devalued.
- Dream on Monkey Mountain: Fantasy as Self-Perception
In this review of Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, Robert J. Willis describes the two major themes of this satirical play as racial inferiority and the ‘‘thwarted potential of a human spirit.’’ He describes the protagonist, Makak, as a mythic and microcosmic representation of the lives of West Indians and of the legacy of racial subjugation and poverty they have endured.
- Big Night Music: Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain and the Splendours of Imagination
In the following essay on Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, author Robert Elliot Fox examines the use of metaphor and meaning in a play he—and Walcott—have described as ‘‘a dream,’’ and discusses the social implications that the dreams, spirit-talks, and fantasies of the novel's protagonist carry.
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