Interlocking Basins of a Globe: Essays on Derek Walcott

Interlocking Basins of a Globe is a fascinating new study of the first Caribbean writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Derek Walcott. The essays range from critical discussion of Walcott's earliest poetry in Twenty-Five Poems (1948) to his most recent collections exploring the approach of old age, The Prodigal (Faber, 2006) and White Egrets (Faber, 2011). The reflections also extend beyond his poetry, to include his drama, rhetoric, essays and criticism. The contributors are: Patrick Anthony, Jean Antoine-Dunne, Edward Baugh, Rhonda Cobham Sander, Rachel Friedman, George B. Handley, Harold McDermott, Antonia McDonald, Kenneth Ramchand, Louis Regis and Gordon Rohlehr. Jean Antoine-Dunne is a Senior Lecturer in Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She is a former Unilever Newman Scholar in Film and Modern Literature at University College, Dublin. She is one of the editors of the Journal of West Indian Literature, and a practicing painter.

About the Author :
She has been awarded a BA from UWI St Augustine, an MA by Major thesis from Maynooth College Ireland, a PhD under the supervision of Seamus Deane from University College Dublin, the Unilever Newman Scholar, University College Dublin, and a Diploma in European Human Rights Law University College Dublin. She worked as freelance arts reviewer in Ireland (provincial papers), and has written innumerable reviews of contemporary Irish and Caribbean writing. She is a Beckett scholar and worked on the Beckett archives in Dublin, Reading, Texas at Austin, and also is a Walcott specialist. She is also a teacher, and has taught Film and Modern Literature at University College Dublin, and taught on the Race and Ethnic Studies Programme at Trinity College Dublin (under Ronit Lentin). She currently teaches the Advanced seminar in West Indian Literature (comparative studies) at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine. She also teaches Modernism, postcolonial Literatures on MA programme, and gives extensive graduate supervision. She designed the BA in Film at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine with the assistance of Bruce Paddington in 2006, and was the Coordinator of BA in Film at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine 2006 -2009. She also was the Coordinator of Graduate Programme in Literatures in English (2009 -2012 ); Introduced courses in Film and Literature. In 2005, Antoine-Dunne relocated to Trinidad to take up a position at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine.