BOOK REVIEW: Charles W. Pollard. NEW WORLD MODERNISMS: T. S. ELIOT, DEREK WALCOTT, AND KAMAU BRATHWAITE. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2004.

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 162-163
Author(s):  
Neil Ten Kortenaar
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Derek Walcott ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite

V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Ghosh
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Development ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Derek Walcott ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Kamau Brathwaite ◽  
Political Debates ◽  
History Of ◽  
Principal Subject ◽  
Intellectual Formation

This book presents a new portrait of V.S. Naipaul, one of the twentieth-century’s most controversial writers about colonialism and its aftermath, by looking at his relationship with the Caribbean, the region of his birth. It argues that whilst Naipaul presented himself as a global public intellectual—a citizen of nowhere—his writing and thought was shaped by his Caribbean intellectual formation, and his investment in Caribbean political debates. Focusing on three key forms of Caribbean writing—the novel, the historical narrative, and the travel narrative—it shows how the generic, stylistic, and formal choices of writers had great political significance. Telling the story of his creative and intellectual development at three crucial points in Naipaul’s career, it offers a new intellectual biography of its principal subject. By showing Naipaul’s crucial place in the history of Caribbean ideas, it also provides new perspectives on a number of major writers and thinkers from the region, including C.L.R. James, Eric Williams, Kamau Brathwaite, Sylvia Wynter, George Lamming, Derek Walcott, Maryse Condé, and David Scott.

Derek Walcott: New world Mediterranean poet

1982 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.A. Ramsaran
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Derek Walcott

Book Review: The Gospel in a Strange New World

1965 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 494-496
Author(s):  
Merrill R. Abbey
Keyword(s):  
New World
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