‘A second Troy!’ Nostos and the poetics of delirium and violence in Derek Walcott’s Odyssey

Drawing principally from Édouard Glissant’s conceptions of detour and délire verbal (verbal delirium) and Frantz Fanon’s notion of the physical and psychological salience of violence, this article explores Odysseus’ nostos, or homecoming, in Derek Walcott’s re-envisioning of the Greek epic poem in T...

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Main Authors: Zargarzadeh, Haleh, Gabriel, Sharmani Patricia
Format: Article
Published: Routledge 2021
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Online Access:http://eprints.um.edu.my/25881/
https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2020.1712761
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