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And for good reason. In December this blog will be two years old and since I started measuring visitor stats on April 6, , this blog has had over 50, visitors. I never thought I&#;d get this far from those early days when only Rethabile, Stephen, Madbull, Professor Zero, and Anonymous were my only readers.
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Caribbean Literature
| Most Important Caribbean Writers Derek Walcott () Walcott raised in Castries, Saint Lucia. He has lived most of his life in Trinidad. His family was of mixed race and ethnicity; he had two white grandfathers and two black grandmothers. His father was a Bohemian artist; he died when Walcott was very young. His family reflects the complex colonial history of the island which he explores in his poetry. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is currently Professor of poetry at the University of Essex. He has published more than twenty plays, the majority of which have been produced by the Trinidad Theatre Workshop, and have also been widely staged elsewhere. Many of them address, either directly or indirectly, the liminal status of the West Indies in the post-colonial period. His poems are characterized by allusions to the English poetic tradition and a symbolic imagination that is at once personal and Caribbean. Walcott identifies as "a • Last Name First Name Language Annotation Abe Kb Japanese K_b_ Abe.Kangaroo Notebook [Kangar_ N_to].Tr. Maryellen Toman A. Knopf [Shinch_sha, ] pp. Cloth: $; ISBN At breakfast one morning, the narrator of Kangaroo Notebook discovers to his horror that what appear to be radish sprouts are growing out of his and terrifying by turns, this is the story of an ordinary man in the grip of bizarre and thoroughly extraordinary forces&#;a self-propelled hospital bed that takes him literally to the edge of hell, doctors eager to cure the wrong ailments, mysterious windstorms, a nurse devoted to taking blood (her monthly quota is about three quarts), infant ghosts, and an American known as Master Hammer Killer who is making a film called Fatal Accidents. Abreu Ciao Fernando Portuguese Caio Fernando Abreu. Whatever Happened to Dulce Viega? A B-Novel [Onde andará Dulce Vega?] Tr. with afterword and glossary by Adria Frizzi. . Press. Cloth: $ |