861
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Original Articles

Derek Walcott's Omeros and the refiguration of the Caribbean Eden

Pages 127-137 | Published online: 12 May 2008

Works cited

  • Benítez‐Rojo , Antonio . 1992 . The Repeating Island: The Caribbean and the Postmodern Perspective , Edited by: Maraniss , James . Durham, NC and London : Duke UP .
  • Bongie , Chris . 1998 . Islands and Exiles: The Creole Identities of Post/Colonial Literature , Stanford : Stanford UP .
  • Burnett , Paula . 2000 . Derek Walcott: Politics and Poetics , Gainesville : UP of Florida .
  • Farrier , David . 2004 . “Charting the ‘Amnesiac Atlantic’: Chiastic Cartography and Caribbean Epic in Derek Walcott's Omeros.” . Journal of Commonwealth Literature , 39 ( 1 ) : 23 – 38 .
  • Fernández , José María Pérez . 2001 . “Terza Rima, the Sea and History in Omeros.” . In Approaches to the Poetics of Derek Walcott , Edited by: Espejo , José Luis Martínez‐Dueñas and María Pérez Fernández , José . 53 – 79 . Lewiston, NY : Edwin Mellen . Caribbean Studies 9
  • Figueroa , John . 1991 . “Omeros.” . In The Art of Derek Walcott , Edited by: Brown , Stewart . Chester Springs, PA : Dufour .
  • Gikandi , Simon . 1992 . Writing in Limbo: Modernism and Caribbean Literature , Ithaca, NY and London : Cornell UP .
  • Hamner , Robert D. 1997 . Epic of the Dispossessed: Derek Walcott's Omeros , Columbia and London : U of Missouri P .
  • Henriksen , Line . 2006 . Ambition and Anxiety: Ezra Pound's Cantos and Derek Walcott's Omeros as Twentieth‐Century Epics , Amsterdam : Rodopi .
  • Homer . 1990 . The Iliad , Edited by: Fagles , Robert . New York : Penguin .
  • Hulme , Peter . 1986 . Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492–1797 , London and New York : Methuen .
  • Lucan . 1993 . Pharsalia , Edited by: Joyce , Jane Wilson . Ithaca, NY and London : Cornell UP .
  • Plimpton , George , ed. 1988 . Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews , 8th series 18 New York : Penguin .
  • Virgil . 1983 . The Aeneid , Edited by: Fitzgerald , Robert . New York : Vintage .
  • Walcott , Derek . “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory.” http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1992/walcott‐lecture.html
  • Walcott , Derek . 1995 . “The Muse of History.” . In The Post‐Colonial Studies Reader , Edited by: Ashcroft , Bill , Griffiths , Gareth and Tiffin , Helen . 370 – 74 . London : Routledge .
  • Walcott , Derek . 1990 . Omeros , London : Faber .
  • Williams , Ted . 2001 . “Truth and Representation: The Confrontation of History and Mythology in Omeros.” . Callaloo: A Journal of African‐American and African Arts and Letters , 24 ( 1 ) : 276 – 86 .
  • Zain , C.C. 1936 . Sacred Tarot , Doctrine of Kabalism Serial no. 48 Los Angeles : Church of Light .
  • Zoppi , Isabella Maria . 1999 . “Omeros, Derek Walcott and the Contemporary Epic Poem.” . Callaloo: A Journal of African‐American and African Arts and Letters , 22 ( 2 ) : 509 – 28 .

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.