Naming Reality into Poetical Existence: Derek Walcott’s Another Life
Part II of Another Life starts with an epigraph derived from Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps which suggests that the only task worthy of a budding Caribbean artist is to take up ‘Adam’s task of giving things their name’. The post-colonial artist can bring his new world into existence by finding t...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2024
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Part II of Another Life starts with an epigraph derived from Alejo Carpentier’s The Lost Steps which suggests that the only task worthy of a budding Caribbean artist is to take up ‘Adam’s task of giving things their name’. The post-colonial artist can bring his new world into existence by finding the right language to appropriate and designate each element of his environment. Like the first human being on earth, he seems to have almost unlimited powers. However this somewhat excessive optimi... |
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