V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott - History and Caribbeanness

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Caribbean Critical Theory

John E. Drabinski

25 episodes

9 months ago

A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.

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A series of podcasts on the Caribbean critical theory tradition, from Suzanne Césaire through the creolist movement.

V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott - History and Caribbeanness

Caribbean Critical Theory

28 minutes

1 year ago

V.S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott - History and Caribbeanness

A discussion of V.S. Naipaul's The Middle Passage (1962) in relation to Derek Walcott's "The Muse of History" (1974) and "The Antilles" (1992), focused on how Naipaul's melancholia structures his imagination of West Indian history and how Walcott's meditations on paternity and fragmentation reconfigures that imagination.