...Nicole Matos Small Axe Incorporated 2006 “Join, Interchangeable Phantoms”: From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott’s Omeros Nicole Matos Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is the love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole. The glue...

...Jane Bryce When St. Lucian-descended Black British artist Isaac Julien presented his avant-garde triple-screen video work Paradise Omeros at a Festival of African and Caribbean Film in Barbados, a member of the audience commended him on the work but regretted it was not being shown to the “real...

... Network on Caribbean Studies, 17 September 2004. small axe 20 • June 2006 • p 61–79 • ISSN 0799-0537 62 | SX20 • Two Healing Narratives when they are as powerful and rich in intertextuality as Derek Walcott’s Omeros, one could easily forget ordinary life, one’s commitment to social...

..., from the earlier collections to his epic masterpiece Omeros , notably written in the highly elaborate Dantesque terza rima: “This is how, one sunrise, we cut down them canoes.” [a] Philoctete smiles for the tourists, who try taking [b] His soul with their cameras. “Once wind bring the news...

... Walcott, “Laventille,” in Collected Poems, 1948–1984 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986), 88. 5 Walcott, “Laventville,” 86–87, 86. 6 Walcott, “Laventille,” 88. 7 Walcott, “The Schooner Flight ,” in Collected Poems , 352. 8 Derek Walcott, Omeros (New York: Farrar...

... 56 The Public Sphere and Jamaican Anticolonial Politics: Public Opinion, Focus, and the Place of the Literary Raphael Dalleo 83 Riffing on Omeros: The Relevance of Isaac Julien...

... allusions in The Arrivants that Warner-Lewis glosses in her Notes to “Masks” (revised and republished as E. Kamau Brathwaite’s “Masks” ) or for that matter the African elements that suffuse the St. Lucian Creole culture around which Walcott builds Omeros . 33 Both European and African worldviews...

... with an assertion of water's generative potential. From here on out, the sea became an iconic symbol to which Walcott returned time and time again, perhaps most significantly through his epic 1990 work, Omeros . A day after Walcott's death in March 2017, Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka declared that the sea...

... small axe June 20 Contents Authority and the Occasion for Speaking in the Caribbean Literary Field, Raphael Dalleo On Homosexual Space, Jennifer Rahim From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott's Omeros, Nicole Matos...

... small axe June 20 Contents Authority and the Occasion for Speaking in the Caribbean Literary Field, Raphael Dalleo On Homosexual Space, Jennifer Rahim From Metaphor to Metonymy in Walcott's Omeros, Nicole Matos...

..., there is no way I could live here. Let me get out of here before I kill somebody ? Derek Walcott's Omeros captures this mood in the exchanges between Statics, Comet, and Hector: “ ‘ This island of St. Lucia , quittez moin dire z'autres! / let me tell you is heading for unqualified / disaster, ces mamailles-là...

..., in “The Bright Field,” against a crowd-sea of people on a street in London, “heart of our history, original sin.” The pain is a strong undercurrent in Omeros . His feeling for the enslaved ancestors reaches a kind of closure in Tiepolo's Hound (2000). 16 There is an almost choral pleasure in reading Baugh...

...-American] historical experience in writing.”8 I had previously called on that same poet, but using Omeros rather than the Nobel lecture, to discuss some of our shared nostalgias, on the final page of The 5 Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit: African and Afro-American Art and Philosophy...

... play Pantomime. Puri does not consider Walcott’s poetry and this is a limitation; SX19 • February 2006 • Eleni Coundouriotis | 201 a discussion of Omeros, in particular, would help Puri show how hybridization affects the historical memory of individuals...

... play Pantomime. Puri does not consider Walcott’s poetry and this is a limitation; SX19 • February 2006 • Eleni Coundouriotis | 201 a discussion of Omeros, in particular, would help Puri show how hybridization affects the historical memory of individuals...

... play Pantomime. Puri does not consider Walcott’s poetry and this is a limitation; SX19 • February 2006 • Eleni Coundouriotis | 201 a discussion of Omeros, in particular, would help Puri show how hybridization affects the historical memory of individuals...

... play Pantomime. Puri does not consider Walcott’s poetry and this is a limitation; SX19 • February 2006 • Eleni Coundouriotis | 201 a discussion of Omeros, in particular, would help Puri show how hybridization affects the historical memory of individuals...

... of Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights ; Sam Selvon's Moses Ascending is an engagement with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ; Aimé Césaire radically renders William Shakespeare's Tempest in Une tempête ; and Derek Walcott translates, in Omeros , the Aegean Sea to the Caribbean. As Rocío Sumillera has...

..., and many locales like it, are ready-made and waiting for their Homeric reincarnation. We need only think, at this point, of Derek Walcott’s Omeros . I can see now that the Caribbean is in some ways the prototype mise en scène for such an odyssey. But I couldn’t see that at the time” (ibid.). 25...