The Greeks Overseas: The Early Colonies and Trade

Description

Walcott＊s lifelong concern with painting and painters deeply inflected his aesthetics and politics. Walcott＊s interventions on the relationship between Caribbean and colonial history have been thoroughly scrutinised, but, arguably, Walcott was also keen to address and (re)write an
history “of which,” paraphrasing a line from
, the Caribbean “too” was/is “capable”. Contextualising and putting in conversation Walcott＊s published and unpublished writings (poems, plays, essays, journalism) and his drawings or paintings (privately owned and publicly disseminated) with specific artists from the Caribbean, Europe, South and North America,
recalibrates and sharpens our understanding of Walcott＊s articulation of his own politics and poetics and of the Caribbean＊s contributions to Atlantic and global culture.