DEREK WALCOTT AND THE DRAMA OF AMBIVALENCE

ABSTRACT

This study is on Derek Walcott’s drama. It focuses on the underlying currents that propel Walcott into the writing and production of the drama of ambivalence, which thematic pre-occupations include: race and colour, history and colonialism, selfhood and identity, exile and alienation, gender and language, all which exist in dual mode. These divergent themes are extradited into Ti-Jean and His Brothers and explicated upon, so as to bring about a wider understanding of Derek Walcott as a writer of no mean repute, and the larger Walcottian dramatic canon.