[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] The UWI Press Channel (YouTube) presents a dialog between Professor Emeritus Edward Baugh and Dr Hannah Regis about his biography of Derek Walcott (The UWI Press, 2017).
Description of Derek Walcott: This succinct account the lifetime of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott focuses on his growth as poet, playwright and man of the theatre: director, producer, trainer. Pals and colleagues who figured in his profession are recalled. The significance of his native St Lucia and household influences within the shaping of his creativity and his view of the world are highlighted, as these advanced in synergy together with his receptivity to the poetry and theatre of the broader world. On this evolution, the tensions and complicated nuances of the idea “dwelling” are seen as an informing issue. The story factors to Walcott’s seminal contribution to the emergence of Caribbean literature, together with his response to the area’s colonial historical past as a central issue.
Edward Baugh is Professor Emeritus of English, the College of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. His publications on Walcott embrace Derek Walcott: Reminiscence as Imaginative and prescient – “One other Life”, Derek Walcott and an annotated version of Walcott’s One other Life (co-edited with Colbert Nepaulsingh).
Dr Hannah Regis is a lecturer in Literatures in English on the College of the West Indies, St Augustine. Her major focus of analysis, instructing and publication is on Caribbean Spectrality, Black Atlantic and Indigenous Research, postcolonial criticism and pedagogical approaches to literary discourses. She has printed broadly on elements of Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean literature in Caribbean Quarterly, Journal of West Indian Literature, The American Research Journal, eTropic and different periodicals. A single-authored monograph on the Poetics of Caribbean Spectrality is forthcoming.
Derek Walcott by Edward Baugh might be bought at on our web site www.uwipress.com