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Article: Eliot in the tropics.(New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite)(Book Review)
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- Twentieth Century Literature
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- March 22, 2005
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New World Modernisms: T. S. Eliot, Derek Walcott, and Kamau Brathwaite
by Charles W. Pollard
University of Virginia Press, 2004. 231 pages
Probably the most important recent book in the field of Caribbean literature is The Other America (1998), a study of Caribbean modernisms by a leading scholar, Michael Dash. Charles Pollard's name will not yet be familiar to many readers in that field (though it will be familiar to readers of Twentieth-Century Literature, where some of this work was published in 2001). That situation, however, is likely to change. Pollard's book is a magnificent complement to Dash's work; while both offer probing and subtle ...