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When Derek Walcott was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in October, it was hailed as a victory for the Caribbean...
...Walcott is perhaps the most celebrated of Caribbean writers currently reaping international acclaim. This group includes other luminaries such as V.S. Naipaul and Jamaica Kincaid. They all are, in part, products of a colonial experience...
...work of many Caribbean writers like Walcott and Kincaid, born well before the wave of independence which transformed the Caribbean in the '60s, does not represent the entire Caribbean experience...
Fortunately, there exists another view of the post-colonial Caribbean, one beyond Naipaul's mordant wit and grim aspect, beyond Kincaid's condescension and Walcott's romanticization...
...Beulah [the collection of poems for which Dove won a Pulitzer], and the novel certainly has its lyrical elements. In terms of poems, I remember deciding that certain people were pretty cool, like Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay, and then later on Adrienne Rich and Derek Walcott and in terms of novels Toni Morrison and Garcia Marquez and Kundera, but that list keeps growing and changing...