Yeats’s Influence on African American Literature: A Case Study of Derek Walcott
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Derek Walcott, the St. Lucia-born Nobel Prize winner, has received great influence from W. B. Yeats, the Irish Nobel Prize winner, and also responded actively to Yeats, thus developing an affinity with the latter. Behind this are some literary considerations, but an attempt to form a cultural and political alliance based on their shared anti-colonialism may be an important reason. With a strong awareness of the distinction between Walcott himself and Yeats and between his homeland and Yeats’s Ireland, Walcott did make some renovation to the Yeatsian legacy to defend his own national identity. A study of the relationship between these two Nobel laureates casts new light onto the relationships between Irish Renaissance writers and the 20th century African American writers, and between modernism and post-colonial literature, as well as onto the nature of modernism and post-colonial literature.
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Derek Walcott, the St. Lucia-born Nobel Prize winner, has received great influence from W. B. Yeats, the Irish Nobel Prize winner, and also responded actively to Yeats, thus developing an affinity with the latter. Behind this are some literary considerations, but an attempt to form a cultural and political alliance based on their shared anti-colonialism may be an important reason. With a strong awareness of the distinction between Walcott himself and Yeats and between his homeland and Yeats’s Ireland, Walcott did make some renovation to the Yeatsian legacy to defend his own national identity. A study of the relationship between these two Nobel laureates casts new light onto the relationships between Irish Renaissance writers and the 20th century African American writers, and between modernism and post-colonial literature, as well as onto the nature of modernism and post-colonial literature.
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