Mythology books from St. Lucia
Recommended mythology books (2)
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If you are into mythology here are some mythology books from St. Lucia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge.
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Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
Among the various avatars that the legendary aura of Homer and his work have known throughout the history of English letters, perhaps the two most astonishing are Joyce's Ulysses and Walcott's Omeros. As in the Iliad ("Omeros" is Homer's name "in the ancient language of the islands"), invoked by a Greek girl, Antigone, exiled in America), the story begins with the rivalry for the love of a woman. She is not a princess but a black Antillean maid, and those who fight for her are not kings but fishermen, but Helena's face is one of those in which the gods "consecrate all the beauty of a race." Sh... continue
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Country: North America / St. Lucia
St. Lucia
Description:
A poem of circular narrative design, titled with the Greek name for Homer, which simultaneously charts two currents of history: the visible history charted in events -- the tribal losses of the American Indian, the tragedy of African enslavement -- and the interior, unwritten epic fashioned from the suffering of the individual in exile.