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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain"
    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain"
    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain"
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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain"

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    A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Literature of Developing Nations for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Literature of Developing Nations For Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateNov 3, 2016
    ISBN9781535822169
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      A Study Guide for Derek Walcott's "Dream on Monkey Mountain" - Gale

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      Dream on Monkey Mountain

      Derek Walcott

      1967

      Introduction

      Though St. Lucia native Derek Walcott is primarily recognized as a Nobel Prize-winning poet, he has also written numerous plays for the Trinidad Theater Workshop, including Dream on Monkey Mountain. It is Walcott’s best known and most performed play. Dream on Monkey Mountain was first performed on August 12, 1967, at the Central Library Theatre in Toronto, Canada. After at least one production in the United States, the play made its New York City debut on March 14, 1971, at St. Mark’s Playhouse. This production garnered Walcott an Obie Award. Regularly performed since its inception, Dream on Monkey Mountain is a complex allegory which, at its heart, concerns racial identity. Makak, the central character of the play, lives alone on Monkey Mountain. He has not seen his own image in thirty years and ends up in jail after drunkenly destroying a café. Much of the play consists of his dream in which he discovers his self-worth as a black man. Critics are divided over many aspects of Dream on Monkey Mountain, including the effectiveness of its poetic language. Reviewing a 1970 production of the play in Los Angeles, W. I. Scobie of National Review wrote, "In Walcott’s dense, poetic text and in the visual images onstage there is a brilliantly successful marriage of classical tradition and African mimetic-dance elements, two strains that are bound as one into the author’s British colonial childhood. And in the myth of Makak, an ultimately universal figure, there is achieved some resolution of the conflict between black roots and white culture. This is a superb

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