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This is a 5 page paper comparing the poems and the effect of colonization in the works “A Far Cry from Africa” by Derek Walcott and “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater” by Dionne Brand. Both are writers who feel displaced by their mixed West Indian and European backgrounds combined with their present dual nationalities in North America and Trinidad. While Walcott’s “Far Cry” depicts a man with divided loyalties and displays the brutality of colonization, Brand’s “Mammy” gives more a sense of Mammy’s strength over her oppressors.
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and most recently, North American influences. Both feel torn between their affiliations between their homes in Trinidad, America (Walcott), and Canada (Brand). In Walcotts "A Far Cry from Africa" he
tries to explain his torment of being both African and European. He loves the English language and literature, all aspects of the colonization which captured the West Indies, yet he
loathes the devastation and brutality from which that colonization was formed. Brand feels equally torn between her heritage but in "Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater" you get a sense that
Mammy has not only mentally overcome her oppressors bonds but has also manipulated modern man and technology and in a sense has overcome her conflict leaving her spirituality intact.
Derek Alton Walcott (1930-) considers himself to be "a mulatto of style" as he explores his self-identity between his African and European ancestry, being
born in St. Lucia and currently dividing his time between the United States and Trinidad. He is considered by many to be the most important West Indian poet and dramatist
writing in English today (Books and Writers). Not only is the conflict of his own struggle found within his poetry but also
the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Africa", Walcott describes "Statistics justify and scholars seize/The
salients of colonial policy" while relating the tortures of a multiple of races which have been victims of crimes of racial discrimination (Walcott). Walcott is conflicted about what he should
do and how he should feel since he has the blood of Europeans and Africans within him during this bloodthirsty time: Where
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