Title: Nobody's nation
Description: This study grounds Walcott's work firmly in the context of West Indian history. The book argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states. According to this book, Walcott's work is centrally concerned with the West Indies' imputed absence from history and lack of cohesive national identity or cultural tradition. Walcott sees this lack not as impoverishment but as an open space for creation.
Subjects: Decolonization in literature, History, In literature, Knowledge, Literature and history, Postcolonialism, West indies, in literature, Walcott, derek, 1930-2017, Knowledge and learning
Places: West Indies
People: Derek Walcott
Time periods: 20th century