Derek Walcott’s Painters

A Life with Pictures

Maria Cristina Fumagalli (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

504 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-1214-5 (ISBN)

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Walcott’s lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott’s interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an art history "of which," paraphrasing a line from Omeros, the Caribbean "too" was/is "capable". Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott’s published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America, Derek Walcott’s Painters recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott’s articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean’s contributions to Atlantic and global culture.

Maria Cristina Fumagalli is Professor in Literature at the University of Essex, United Kingdom. She is the author of On the Edge: Writing the Border between Haiti and the Dominican Republic (2015; 2018), the first literary/cultural history of this border region, Caribbean Perspectives on Modernity: Returning Medusa's Gaze (2009), which rethinks modernity from a Caribbean perspective and The Flight of the Vernacular: Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott and the Impress of Dante (2001). She is the editor of Agenda: Special Issue on Derek Walcott (2002-2003), and co-editor of The Cross-Dressed Caribbean: Writing, Politics, Sexualities (2013) and Surveying the American Tropics: A Literary Geography from New York to Rio (2013).

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Illustrations

Introduction
1. A Brief History of a Vocation in (about) Fifteen Objects
2. Atelier des Tropiques: The Local Scene
3. Voyages to Cythera and the European Legacy
4. American Visions I - Frescoes of the New World and Black America
5. American Visions II - Black Odysseys
6. Painting (and) the Caribbean: The Awe of the Ordinary and the Search for Anonymity
7. Poems “out of” Paintings: Towards an Ekphrasis of Relation
Farewell

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	16.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures
Zusatzinfo	61 colour illustrations
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	172 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-3995-1214-5 / 1399512145
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-1214-5 / 9781399512145
Zustand	Neuware