Contextualizing Walcott
Walcott was born in 1930, a year which is a cultural marker of those who became major writers of the new nations which followed the end of the European empires. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa’Thiongo, V. S. Naipaul, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, were born in 1930 or a few years to either side of...
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| 發表在: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| 格式: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| 語言: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| 在線閱讀: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| 總結: | Walcott was born in 1930, a year which is a cultural marker of those who became major writers of the new nations which followed the end of the European empires. Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi Wa’Thiongo, V. S. Naipaul, Edward Kamau Brathwaite, were born in 1930 or a few years to either side of it. Such writers inherited the language, culture, and literature of the British which conflicted with the cultural assertion that was part of the anticolonial politics of the time. Their work can b... |
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