{"id":5644,"date":"2023-07-27T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/2023\/07\/27\/derek-walcott-the-red-nigger-who-love-the-sea-1992\/"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:58:01","slug":"derek-walcott-the-red-nigger-who-love-the-sea-1992","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/en\/2023\/07\/27\/derek-walcott-the-red-nigger-who-love-the-sea-1992\/","title":{"rendered":"Derek Walcott, The red nigger who love the sea, 1992"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"706\" src=\"https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-25-alle-11.29.32-1024x706.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4941\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-25-alle-11.29.32-1024x706.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-25-alle-11.29.32-980x675.png 980w, https:\/\/www.2changingart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screenshot-2023-03-25-alle-11.29.32-480x331.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Derek Walcott, the poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, was born in 1930 in Castries, the capital of Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles. 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This can be seen in the image of the abandoned castaway, in &#8220;The Castaway and Other Poems&#8221; (1965); later in &#8220;The Gulf and Other Poems&#8221; (1969), and all the way to the epic poem &#8220;Omeros&#8221; (1990), where the reference to Homer facilitates the vision of a historical and geographical landscape that unifies the present and the past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek Walcott, the poet awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, was born in 1930 in Castries, the capital of Saint Lucia, in the Lesser Antilles. Since 1981, he taught creative writing at Brown University in Providence, USA. 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