
Published online:
21 February 2013
Published in print:
15 December 2001
Online ISBN:
9780226074283
Print ISBN:
9780226074269
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Art and Divided Consciousness Art and Divided Consciousness
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After the “Impeachable Pastoral”: Love, Departure, and “History” After the “Impeachable Pastoral”: Love, Departure, and “History”
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Chapter
6 Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration
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156–188
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Published:December 2001
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Breslin, Paul, 'Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration', Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott (Chicago, IL , 2001; online edn, Chicago Scholarship Online, 21 Feb. 2013), https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226074283.003.0007, accessed 5 May 2025.
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Breslin, Paul. "Another Life: West Indian Experience and the Problems of Narration." In Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott University of Chicago Press, 2001. Chicago Scholarship Online, 2013. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226074283.003.0007.
Abstract
This chapter analyzes Walcott's first epic-length poem, Another Life. The poem is not so much an epic as an autobiography, albeit of an atypical kind. Undertaking a long poem for the first time, Walcott confronted the problems of narration posed by what Glissant would call a “non-history.” Yet at first glance, the poem seems more straightforward than its Anglo–American modernist counterparts. In its unhurried pace, it recalls nineteenth-century examples such as The Prelude, In Memoriam, or The Ring and The Book. It is almost Victorian in its expansiveness and unapologetic delight in elevated rhetoric, extended painterly description, and digressive metaphors.
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