Episode 16: Walcott's New Adam and Gallant's Latehomecoming
Manifesto! · Jake and Phil are joined by essayist and fiction-writer Victoria Brown of Rollins College to discuss Derek Walcott’s The Muse of History alongside Mavis Gallant’s The Latehomecomer
The Manifesto:
Derek Walcott, The Muse of History
http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results (http://www.worldcat.org/title/what-the-twilight-says-essays/oclc/38976188&referer=brief_results)
The Art:
Mavis Gallant, “The Latehomecomer”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/07/08/the-latehomecomer)
Works Cited:
Derek Walcott, “Bleecker Street, Summer”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57109/bleecker-street-summer)
Derek Walcott, “Hic Jacet”
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579 (https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374537579)
Derek Walcott, “Air”
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html (http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/2640/air.html)
VS Naipaul, A House for Mr. Biswas
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119600/a-house-for-mr-biswas-by-v-s-naipaul)
VS Naipaul, Miguel Street
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/119625/miguel-street-by-vs-naipaul)
Derek Walcott, “The Bounty”
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48318/the-bounty)
Clive James on Sartre, from Cultural Amnesia
https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X (https://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Amnesia-Necessary-Memories-History/dp/039333354X)
Vico, The New Science
https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697 (https://www.amazon.com/Science-Penguin-Classics-Giambattista-Vico/dp/0140435697)
Derek Walcott, The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/ (https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1992/walcott/lecture/)
Jamaica Kincaid, A Small Place
https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075 (https://www.amazon.com/Small-Place-Jamaica-Kincaid/dp/0374527075)
The novellas of Joseph Roth
https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE (https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-Roth/e/B001HNKTLE)
Apogee Journal
https://apogeejournal.org/ (https://apogeejournal.org/)
Audio Clips
Eddie Izzard, Dressed to Kill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zTEuKLY)
Derek Walcott reading from The Bounty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCIMvohjODY)
Walcott on his life and work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_6mgbRSUzo&list=PLfngbdaGfrrM7IziPezFDTsgxeShxysMt)