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Article: Traveling with Joyce: Derek Walcott's discrepant cosmopolitan modernism.(James Joyce)
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- Twentieth Century Literature
- Article date:
- June 22, 2001
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Consider the following description as a question on a final exam in a course on modernist literature:
Please identify the twentieth-century author who was born on an island controlled by the Roman Catholic Church and the British Empire, twin forces that shaped his self--portrait of the artist as a young man. Educated by Irish priests, he was drawn to the mystical ritual of the church but rebelled against its suffocating orthodoxy. Educated in the colonial system, he grew to resent English rule yet cherished the English language and literary tradition. People accused him of forsaking his indigenous language, but he aspired to use English to shape the consciousness ...