Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life

by Bruce Alvin King

This is the first full-scale literary biography of Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist Derek Walcott. It traces the creative contradictions in his life from colonial St. Lucia, where he was part of a tiny English-speaking Protestant mulatto elite in an overwhelmingly French-Creole Roman Catholic black society, to 1999 when, a star of international literature and a symbol of cultural decolonization, he wanted to be Poet Laureate of England. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019871131X
• ISBN13: 9780198711315
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 760 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"