• Walcott on History, Race, and Identity

  • Apr 24 2023
  • Length: 24 mins
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Walcott on History, Race, and Identity

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  • A discussion of Derek Walcott's 1974 essay "The Muse of History," focusing on how his repudiation of "paternity" impacts the question of identity in the black Americas. What is a black American? What is that identity's relationship to European and African ancestry, and the overwhelming frame of empire's history? What other identity stories can be told?
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