Breadfruit in the Wake: Imagining Vegetal Mutiny in Derek Walcott's "The Bounty"
I examine Derek Walcott’s portrayal of the journey of the breadfruit in “The Bounty,” which intertwines the history of the species’ transplantation with an elegy for the poet’s own mother. In its depiction of the mutiny on the Bounty, Walcott’s poem opens up a moment of Glissantian détour in the pla...
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| Language: | English |
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Latin American Research Commons
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Latin American Literary Review |
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| Online Access: | https://account.lalrp.net/index.php/lasa-j-lalr/article/view/235 |