| Description |
1 online resource (542 pages) |
| Series |
Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; 172 |
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Cross/cultures ; 172. 0924-1426
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Derek Walcott and the Search for a Caribbean National Theatre; 1 Anglophone Caribbean Drama, Theatre, and Society; Prologue; Call for a National Theatre; 2 Emergence of Anglophone Caribbean Drama; 3 Festivals, Companies, and Productions; Festivals; Federal Theatre Company; Repertory Players; Company of Players; Phoenix Players; Trinidad Dramatic Club (TDC); Guild Players; Strolling Players; Rosary Players; Trinidad Theatre Workshop; 4 British and American Drama; 5 Dance and Music Theatre; Dance |
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Musical and Light Opera6 Carnival and Calypso; Carnival; Calypso and Steelband; 7 Miscellaneous; 8 Cinema: Screenings in Trinidad; 9 The Local Press on Walcott's Drama; Chronological Indexed Listing; Index |
| Summary |
During the same period in which Derek Walcott was pouring immense physical, emotional, and logistical resources into the foundation of a viable first-rate West Indian theatre company and continuing to write his inimitable poetry, he was also busy writing newspaper reviews, chiefly for the Trinidad Guardian. His prodigious reviewing activity extended far beyond those areas with which one might most readily associate his interests and convictions. As Gordon Rohlehr once presciently observed, "If one wants to see a quotidian workaday Walcott, one should go back to [his] well over five hundred art |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Walcott, Derek -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Walcott, Derek fast |
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Poetics -- History -- 20th century
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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Literature
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Poetics
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| SUBJECT |
Caribbean Area -- In literature
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| Subject |
Caribbean Area
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Balme, Christopher B., editor
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Collier, Gordon, editor
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| ISBN |
9789401210072 |
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9401210071 |
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