Abstract
This paper explores how Derek Walcott, the 1992 Nobel laureate,
imaginatively reframes his Caribbean identity. Redressing the identity
crisis Walcott’s poetic expression reflects his struggle to re-explore his
roots. The research, through an analysis of Walcott’s representative
poems, highlights how interrelating of ‘soul’ and ‘soil’ shapes his
rootedness. Breaking the borders of race and culture, Walcott constructs
identity on the basis of the archetype of Adam thus entitling his vison of
identity as Adamic. Through the route of ‘creative’ sensibility he not
only confronts but also cures his ‘schizophrenia’ fusing inventiveness of
thought with cultural and historical constructs. More specifically the
triangular relationship of history, family and earth; three markers of
identity construction creatively broadens the view of how Walcott
evinces identity.
Shahzeb Khan, Dr.Amr Ra . (2017) Creative Salvage of Self: Derek Walcott’s Symbiosis of the Self and the Other, Bazyaft, Vol 30- 31, Issue 1.
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