DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN.

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Dream on Monkey Mountain : and other plays. by Walcott, Derek

Table of Contents: “…What the twilight says : an overture -- The sea at Dauphin -- Ti-Jean and his brothers -- Malcochon, or the six in the rain -- Dream on Monkey Mountain.…”

Dream on Monkey Mountain Tape 4.

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Extract of DREAM ON MONKEY MOUNTAIN / Banyan Archive.

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Black subjects : identity formation in the contemporary narrative of slavery / Arlene R. Keizer. by Keizer, Arlene R.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : "the middle passage never guessed its end" : New World slavery in contemporary literature -- Beloved : ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects -- Being, race, and gender : black masculinity and western philosophy in Charles Johnson's works on slavery -- The chosen place, the timeless people : late capitalism in the black Atlantic -- Performance, identity, and mulatto aesthetics in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- The geography of the Apocalypse : incest, mythology, and the fall of Washington city in Carolivia Herron's Thereafter Johnnie -- Conclusion : one lives by memory, not by truth.…”

Classic plays from the Negro Ensemble Company / Gus Edwards and Paul Carter Harrison, editors.

Race and displacement : nation, migration, and identity in the twenty-first century / edited by Maha Marouan and Merinda Simmons ; foreword by Houston A. Baker Jr. ; introduction by Philip D. Beidler ; afterword by Trudier Harris.

Table of Contents: “…Cultural schizophrenia and postcolonial identity in Derek Walcott's 'Dream on Monkey Mountain' and Bernadine Evaristo's 'Lara' /…”
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Readings from 1st Conference of Intellectual Workers / [produced by Banyan Ltd.].

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Disturbers of the Peace : Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature / Kelly Baker Josephs. by Josephs, Kelly Baker

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Madness, Caribbeanness and the process of nation-building -- Manias and messiahs : man-man and the madness of Miguel Street -- The necessity for madness : negotiating nation in Sylvia Wynter's The Hills of Hebron -- "Fighting mad" : between sides and stories in Wide Sargasso Sea -- Shared dreams and collective delirium in Derek Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain -- "Claims to social identity" : madness and subject formation in Jane and Louisa Will Soon Come Home -- Epilogue : Madness and migration in the new millennia.…”
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Nobody's nation : reading Derek Walcott / Paul Breslin. by Breslin, Paul

Table of Contents: “…Biographical sketch -- "Fishing the twilight for alternate voices" : the early poems and Henri Christophe -- The young playwright in Jamaica -- Adam's amnesia : the uses of memory and forgetting -- Dead ends and green beginnings : Dream on monkey mountain -- Another life : West Indian experience and the problems of narration -- "Pulling in the seine / of the dark sea" : "The schooner flight" -- Derek sans terre : the poetry of the 1980s -- Epic amnesia : healing and memory in Omeros -- Post-Homeric Derek : The bounty and Tiepolo's hound.…”
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Empire and poetic voice : cognitive and cultural studies of literary tradition and colonialism / Patrick Colm Hogan. by Hogan, Patrick Colm

Table of Contents: “…Subaltern myths drawn from the colonizer: Dream on monkey mountain and the revolutionary Jesus -- 4. …”
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Nobel laureates in search of identity & integrity : voices of different cultures / edited by Anders Hallengren.

Table of Contents: “…The Dramatic WorkDream on Monkey Mountain; From Seville to Babylon; The "Homeric" Works; Omeros; The Odyssey; Derek Walcott The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory; Anders Hallengren Naguib Mahfouz -- The Son of Two Civilizations; The Arabic Renaissance and the Rise of the Egyptian Novel; Mahfouz's Perennial Quest; The Pertinence of the Past; Power and Social Issues; The Children of Gebelawi; The Enigmatic and the Absurd; The Court of Osiris; Who Was Akhenaten?…”
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