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Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott

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Jason Allen offers a comparative discussion of two important Caribbean poets and playwrights, Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott, to emphasize the impact of Caribbean literature upon the postcolonial world.

By using biographical and historical detail to support his analysis of some of Cesaire and Walcott's key texts, Allen offers insight into what it means to be a Caribbean writer - looking back to a colonial past, and forward to a global future.

Date Published: 24 August 2012
Contributors:
Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies
In Collection(s): Caribbean Writers, Contemporary Writers, Derek Walcott
Keywords:
caribbean, Aime Cesaire, Derek Walcott, poetry, Plays, hybridity, postcolonial, #greatwriters
Source:
University of Oxford Podcasts
Cite: Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott by Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies at http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ via http://writersinspire.org/content/aime-cesaire-derek-walcott. Published on 24 August 2012. Accessed on 31 October 2025.

If reusing this resource please attribute as follows: Aime Cesaire and Derek Walcott (http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/) by Jason Allen-Paisant, Dominic Davies, licensed as Creative Commons BY-NC-SA (2.0 UK).