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...mixed backgrounds consisting of European, West Indian and most recently, North American influences. Both feel torn between their affiliations between their homes in Trinidad, America (Walcott), and Canada (Brand). In Walcott’s 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...