The Antilles

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Derek Walcott used to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature on December 10, 1992. His Nobel lecture is a stirring evocation of the multivalent wholeness of the culture of the Antilles, forged out of a violent history against a land- and seascape of immemorial dimensions. “Caribbean culture isn’t evolving but already shaped,” writes Walcott. “Its proportions don’t seem to be to be measured by the traveller or the exile, but by its own citizenry and architecture.” He finds the picture of this culture within the city of Port of Spain, Trinidad, “mongrelized, polyglot, a ferment with no history, like heaven.” And watching a group of East Indian Trinidadians reenact the Hindu epic the Ramayana within the small village of Felicity, he meditates at the sacred celebration of joy, the rehearsal of collective memory, that may be the very essence of human experience, beyond history. Walcott’s lecture is a powerful reenvisionmg of the subjects that experience energized and informed his poetry.


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