Derek Walcott, What the Twilight Says

Sean Seeger (University of Essex)

Ed. by Jak Peake, University of Essex
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 4.1.1: Anglophone Writing and Culture of Central America and the Caribbean.
Vol. editors: Ronald Cummings (McMaster University), Delphine Munos (Université de Liège), Melanie Otto (Trinity College Dublin), Jak Peake (University of Essex), Abigail Ward (University of Nottingham)

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First circulation or publication 1998

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St Lucia (Country of Origin)

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Non-Fiction
- Essay Collection

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What the Twilight Says

is the first collection of prose writing by the Caribbean Nobel laureate Derek Walcott. It was first published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux in the U.S. and by Faber & Faber in Great Britain (all references in this entry are to the Faber & Faber edition). The collection is divided into three sections. The first consists of three wide-ranging essays of cultural criticism: “What the Twilight Says”, “The Muse of History”, and Walcott’s Nobel Prize Lecture, “The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory”. The second section consists of ten essays of literary criticism and incorporates contributions by Walcott to a range of publications, including

The New York Review of Books

The Atlantic,

and

The New Republic

over a period of approximately twenty years.…

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Citation: Seeger, Sean. "What the Twilight Says". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 06 May 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=8739, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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