DOI: https://doi.org/10.59321/BAUETJ.V4I1.18
AUTHOR(S)
Mahfuza Nargis1
ABSTRACT
This paper intends to reflect the racial conflicts that constitute the crux of Caribbean identity. It clarifies the sense of self-alienation and self-exile as experienced and expressed by Derek Walcott in his poems. Walcott, as a Caribbean poet, reinforces the themes of despair, disillusionment and defiance, cultural conflicts, linguistic hegemony, and loss of history and identity. Though he is a native of Caribbean island, he develops an attachment with English language. That is why Walcott suffers from a sort of dichotomy of identity. He can neither avoid the English language nor forget the brutality of the European colonization that befell upon the Caribbean people. This paper seeks to examine this fragmented Caribbean self in his poetry.