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- Title
Dialogic Construction of Syncretic Identity in Derek Walcott's Select Plays.
- Authors
Khan, Shahzeb; Raza, Amra
- Abstract
Derek Walcott (1930-2017), received the 1992 Nobel Prize in literature. This paper offers textual analysis of three of his plays from the point of identity politics. The works discussed are Remembrance (1977), Pantomime (1978), and The Last Carnival (1980). Derek Walcott had shared lineage as he had European and African grandparents. Early in his literary career, he grappled with the issue of identity in the Caribbean context and tried to salvage a sense of identity from the multireligious, multi-cultural, and multi-ethnic diversity in his locale. In the heyday of political decolonization campaigns in the Caribbean, Derek Walcott, through his creative works, tried to sort out the identity conundrum and in the end, presented a syncretic construction of Caribbean identity. This paper, offers a reading of the afore-mentioned works through the major characters depicted in the plays: Albert Perez Jordan in Remembrance, Harry and Jackson in Pantomime, and Agatha Willett in The Last Carnival to present an analysis of the dialogic negotiations of identity that happen on stage.
- Subjects
WALCOTT, Derek, 1930-2017; IDENTITY politics; DECOLONIZATION; JORDAN, Albert; RELIGIONS
- Publication
Journal of Research (Humanities), 2019, Vol 55, p219
- ISSN
1812-1128
- Publication type
Article