Abstract
In a recent interview published in Partisan Review, Derek Walcott characterised American theatre as closeted and shuttered: ‘I think what is missing is a kind of width of the imagination that very few American playwrights have.... You don’t get a feeling of scale in American theater. And it does not have any tribal power. It is all very hermetic and private and individualistic and diaristic’ (Montenegro 20). By implication, Walcott’s own plays are what he has called ‘barefoot in spirit’ (Montenegro 20), open in form, and tribal rather than individualistic. Is this true and what does this mean?
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Juneja, R. (1992). Derek Walcott. In: King, B. (eds) Post-Colonial English Drama. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22436-4_16
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