Postcolonial Poetics of Animosity in Walcott's Poetry

Abstract

Walcott's oeuvre is the paradigm of postcolonial situation vice-a-vis hybridity and ambivalent state of being. His poetry evokes the poetics of animosity with both his inherited cultures particularly in the context of conflict between both the cultures. Miscegenated, Walcott’s diatribe and his humanistic concern towards the evils of colonization establishes his love-hate relationship with both the colonizer’s and the colonized. His journey reassembling the fragmented history is further fragmented with the raising conflict between both his inherited bloods. Walcott poeticizes this situation. His bio-culturally divided loyalties and split consciousness initiates affliction raising to the height of outrage during cultural conflict.