Overview
Walcott's lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott's interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history ""of which,"" paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean ""too"" was/is ""capable"". Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott's published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott's Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott's articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean's contributions to Atlantic and global culture.
Full Product Details
Author: Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 9781399512138
ISBN 10: 1399512137
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 31 July 2023
Audience:
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Only a true friend to the man, his verse and his visual art can understand the depth and intricacy of their connections. Fumagalli is that friend, and her rich, magnificent study brims with the light he shone from his island to the world.? ? ? "" -Glyn Maxwell, editor of The Poetry of Derek Walcott, 1948 2013"
""Only a true friend to the man, his verse and his visual art can understand the depth and intricacy of their connections. Fumagalli is that friend, and her rich, magnificent study brims with the light he shone from his island to the world.? ? ? "" -Glyn Maxwell, editor of The Poetry of Derek Walcott, 1948 2013
Author Information
Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She is the author of On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2015; 2018), the first literary/cultural history of this border region, Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze (2009), which rethinks modernity from a Caribbean perspective and The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001). She is the editor of Agenda: Special Issue on Derek Walcott (2002-2003), and co-editor of The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities (2013) and Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio (2013). .
