Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott on his life and work

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Uploaded by on Jan 28, 2011

English professor, Christian Campbell, interviews Caribbean poet and playwright, Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992. Walcott discusses issues of identity, culture, and language in this illuminating conversation, filmed at Hart House Theatre on November 23, 2010.

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  • It was great to meet Mr Walcott. His earlier works were fab. He is hung up on his colour, he tends to take being black as being literally 'black'. He got confused by the word. Black people are not black they are brown or dark brown. He connotes white with goodness, fair enough, but you don't have to be a person born English to be good, or be a brown skinned man to be bad!

    Secondly, after Tiepolo's hound? He became a dog. That book in itself is about psychological inferiority to whites.

  • Thank you for the video. 

  • and christian campbell strikes the perfect tone; Note--Campbell is a poet too--his collection Running the Dusk was published last year to wide acclaim

  • great poet

    and great poetry

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