By Paul Breslin
According to Breslin, Walcott's paintings is centrally inquisitive about the West Indies' imputed absence from background and shortage of cohesive nationwide identification or cultural culture. Walcott sees this lack now not as impoverishment yet as an open house for construction. In his poems and performs, West Indian background turns into a realm of necessity, whatever to be faced, contested, and remade via literature. what's so much vexed and encouraged in Walcott's paintings should be traced to this quixotic struggle.
Linking vast archival learn and new interviews with Walcott himself to precise serious readings of significant works, Nobody's Nation will take its position because the definitive examine of the poet.
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