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050 00 $aPN849.C3$bF54 2009
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100 1 $aFigueroa, Víctor,$d1969-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2008050875
245 10 $aNot at home in one's home :$bCaribbean self-fashioning in the poetry of Luis Palés Matos, Aimé Césaire, and Derek Walcott /$cVíctor Figueroa.
260 $aMadison :$bFairleigh Dickinson University Press,$c[2009], ©2009.
300 $a239 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 229-236) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tDancing with Tembandumba: Opacity and Relation to Luis Pales Matos -- $g2.$tLeaving the Native Land: Resistance and Negotiation in Aime Cesaire -- $g3.$tRoads Taken Yet Not Taken: Derek Walcott's "Ethical Twist" -- $tEpilogue: "Encomium of Helen"
520 1 $a"This book examines the work of three major twentieth-century Caribbean poets: one Puerto Rican, one Martinician, and one Saint Lucian. Focusing on one major work by each poet (Luis Pales Matos's Tuntun de pasa y griferla, Aime Cesaire's Cahier d'un retour au pays natal; and Derek Walcott's Omeros), it follows their efforts to confront the Archipelago's historical legacy of racism and colonialism through the creation of poetic personae that unceasingly alternate between the open dialogism of political engagement and the monologic closure of lyric self-articulation." "As the book follows the poets' attempts to define and describe their roles and positions as intellectuals and artists in post/colonial societies, it traces their navigation of the always fragile and movable line between public and private spaces, and their perplexity regarding the porous limits between poetic persona and official writers, between the particularity of experience and the necessary generality of language, between political commitment and aesthetic concerns: imperatives that often pull them toward quite contradictory directions within the textual space of a single poem. These three poets offer a dramatic and vivid portrayal of the process, and the difficulties of finding one's own voice in the post/colonial societies where the poet often feels at home yet not at home." "In addition to elucidating common denominators in these writers' approaches to the Caribbean, Not at Home in One's Home shows how each of them reaches his own particular solution, or impasse, with regards to the social, political, and aesthetic problems that his poetry poses. Thus, this study attempts to do justice to the individual talents of these great poets, and to the extraordinary diversity of the region they are trying to unravel in their poetry."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aCaribbean poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
600 10 $aPalés Matos, Luis.$tTuntún de pasa y grifería.
600 10 $aCésaire, Aimé.$tPoems.$kSelections.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96099276
600 10 $aWalcott, Derek.$tOmeros.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007150230
852 00 $bglx$hPN849.C3$iF54 2009