Walcott's Omeros: Revitalization of Wounded Caribbeans E-Book

Rahman Mostafiz

• Herausgeber: BookRix
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

While writing this epic, Walcott adopts and transforms elements from Pound's The Cantos, Eliot's The Waste Land and Crane's The Bridge. He uses pseudo-Dantean verse, Sapphic prosody, Homeric sensibility and Virgilian methodology, which does not show his inaptness of aesthetic purity of writing epic, but rather shows his attempt to set a new trend in literary modernism. I have defined this new trend as polyglossic epic which I will demonstrate in this book.

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Rahman Mostafiz

Walcott's Omeros: Revitalization of Wounded Caribbeans

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Walcott’s Omeros: Revitalization of Caribbean Wounds

 by

      Rahman Mostafiz

Key Words

Key Words:

Postcolonial Literature, Derek Walcott, Classical Epic in Modern Period, Multi-vocal Literature, Caribbean Literature.

Abstract

Abstract:

Emerging from over three hundred years of occidental oppression, the Caribbean people find themselves custodians of a culture inseparably cemented to an imperial history. Despite this oppression, or perhaps because of it, a uniquely West Indian consciousness has emerged, during the last decades of 20th century, which draws Walcott’s poetic attention. With a view to recovering the wounds of Caribbean culture, he attempts to delineate this West Indian spirit in his most ambitious work Omeros. Here he portrays some characters whose acts of healing of others’ wounds are actually nothing but symbols of healing the wounds of entire Caribbean culture. For example, Ma Kilman’s healing Philoctete is actually a symbolic healing of the entire community (elaborately shown in the main paper). My purpose of writing this paper, however, is to explore the concept of cultural healing in this poem through Walcott’s engagement with modernist epic poetry.

While writing this epic, Walcott adopts and transforms elements from Pound’s The Cantos, Eliot’s The Waste Land and Crane’s The Bridge. He uses pseudo-Dantean verse, Sapphic prosody, Homeric sensibility and Virgilian methodology, which does not show his inaptness of aesthetic purity of writing epic, but rather shows his attempt to set a new trend in literary modernism. I have defined this new trend as polyglossic epic which I will demonstrate in this paper.

I have organized my paper into two major issues focusing on the process of redefining the epic, and the process of cultural healing in Omeros.