{"product_id":"nobodys-nation-paul-breslin-9780226074276","title":"Nobody's Nation: Reading Derek Walcott","description":"\u003ci\u003eNobody's Nation\u003c\/i\u003e offers an illuminating look at the St. Lucian, Nobel-Prize-winning writer, Derek Walcott, and grounds his work firmly in the context of West Indian history. Paul Breslin argues that Walcott's poems and plays are bound up with an effort to re-imagine West Indian society since its emergence from colonial rule, its ill-fated attempt at political unity, and its subsequent dispersal into tiny nation-states. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAccording to Breslin, Walcott's work is centrally concerned with the West Indies' imputed absence from history and lack of cohesive national identity or cultural tradition. Walcott sees this lack not as impoverishment but as an open space for creation. In his poems and plays, West Indian history becomes a realm of necessity, something to be confronted, contested, and remade through literature. What is most vexed and inspired in Walcott's work can be traced to this quixotic struggle. \u003cbr\u003eLinking extensive archival research and new interviews with Walcott himself to detailed critical readings of major works, \u003ci\u003eNobody's Nation\u003c\/i\u003e will take its place as the definitive study of the poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Breslin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226074277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226074276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 340\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Paul Breslin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48086391193855,"sku":"9780226074276","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c96bc4a8-d7c5-4882-bb9e-d5877cf43c78.jpg?v=1769094409","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/nobodys-nation-paul-breslin-9780226074276","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}