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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nobel prizewinning poet Derek Walcott is one of many big-name alumni converging on the University of the West Indies campus in Mona, Jamaica, April 14-18. The event is U.W.I.'s Gathering of Graduates, and the guest list includes the Prime Ministers of Jamaica, Barbados and St. Kitts. While in Jamaica, Walcott will be raising money for a new Caribbean-based international center promoting the arts and the study of economics. He will announce the project this week in Boston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poetry In Motion | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...intellectual reconstruction of Caribbean literature must account for the fact that the conditions which spawned a Kincaid or a Walcott no longer exist. Geographical and intellectual isolation are impossible...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: The Caribbean Is More Than Colonialism | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...Nobel lecture, Walcott insists that the "Caribbean is looked at [as being] illegitimate, rootless, mongrelized.... No people. Fragments and echoes of real people, unoriginal and broken...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: The Caribbean Is More Than Colonialism | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...move to embrace and implement new economic policies will allow the "warrior-archers, the god actors and their handlers" who inhabit Walcott's Trinidad to thrive...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: The Caribbean Is More Than Colonialism | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

...inevitably right that Walcott has assumed his rightful place in the literary pantheon. The people of the region cannot, as he suggests, wait for "a broader more benign consideration of the Caribbean." It is they who are responsible for its imaginative redefinition...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: The Caribbean Is More Than Colonialism | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

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