Type: Poetry / Language: English / Topic: African diaspora and Caribbean - Diverse Adaptations of Classical Literature

Start Over Type Poetry Language English Topic African diaspora Topic Caribbean

Creator / Contributor:: Walcott, Derek
Date Created / Date Issued:: 1990
Description:: A poem in five books, of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.
Work Based On:: Homer's Odyssey
Publisher:: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Language:: English
Format:: Print book
Type:: Poetry
Topic:: African diaspora, Caribbean, Fathers and sons, and Epic poetry
Rights - Use and Reproduction:: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

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