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Caribbean Quarterly
A Journal of Caribbean Culture
Volume 58, 2012 - Issue 1: Words and Power
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Original Articles

Acts of Possession and Symbolic Decolonisation in Trinidad and Tobago

Pages 21-43 | Published online: 03 Feb 2016
 

Abstract

It is this awe of the numinous, this elemental privilege of naming the New World which annihilates history in our great poets, an elation common to all of them, whether they are aligned by heritage to Crusoe and Prospero or to Friday and Caliban.

-Derek Walcott, “The Muse of History”

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