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Rei Terada
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Northeastern Univ Pr
Publication date
June 1, 1992
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781555531263
ISBN-10
1555531261
Dimensions
1 by 6.25 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.25 lbs.
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Out of Print
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$42.50
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university press
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century. However, while most critics agree that Walcott's writing warrants considerable attention, they fault it for being too derivative. Rei Terada deals explicitly with facets of Walcott's work that are often misunderstood by critics and other readers. Terada is particularly interested in Walcott's provocative hypothesis that there is a collective America extending, in Walcott's own words, "from Greenland right down to Tierra del Fuego" and that emanating from this collective America is an art characterized by mimicry. Thus, American art as Walcott perceives it is a representation of a representation--a repetition of something itself repetitious--rather than a representation of reality. Walcott recognizes that the opposition between mimicry and originality is vital and unavoidable. He both acknowledges this vitality and resists the opposition. Terada describes this approach as one of the most ancient and critical oppositions in Western culture. She considers the ways in which Walcott's poetry, written from this ambiguous vantage point, illuminates the relationship of American poetry to Old World culture, as well as the ways in which American languages relate to one another and to the material world. While mimetic theories of art hold that culture is a representation of something original (nature), Walcott's does not. Thus, he must re-examine the relationship between culture and nature. Beginning broadly with Walcott's mental map of the world, Terada demonstrates how his "geographic imagination" is played out in Omeros. She goes on to explore Walcott's unusual openness to hispoetic precursors, among them Homer, Beaudelaire, John Donne, William Butler Yeats, and Robert Lowell, which for some critics is as problematic as his adoption of the creoles and dialects of the Caribbean. Terada also discusses his denial of literature as property in the context of p
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9781555531263 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $42.50
About: With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century.
About: With the 1989 publication of his epic poem, Omeros, Derek Walcott stands as a major poet of the twentieth century.
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