Landscape Writing And Identity Research In Walcott's Poetry

Walcott,who won the 1992 nobel prize for literature,is one of the most famous Caribbean writers in the world.His influence spread to China as early as the end of last century.This paper attempts to study Walcott's landscape writing in his poems,trace his creative career and explore how he can overcome the crises of identity,so as to find the cultural identity of himself and other subjects in the post-colonial society.At first,this thesis traces back to Walcott's ancestors' landscape writing,in which the colonial trauma and Topophilia also last till his works.But compared with his predecessors,Walcott was obviously more sensitive to the erosion of spiritual colonization and the ambiguity of personal identity.He did not hate or exclude western culture as the writers of his time did,but fell deeply into the confusion and embarrassment of dual identity.Walcott's thoughts on Caribbean history and post-colonial status quo and unique non-linear dynamic view of history made him consciously integrate landscape writing with the construction of Caribbean national identity,so as to get out of the rootless dilemma,gradually overcome the self-crisis like schizophrenia and accept multiple identities.Such diaspora consciousness created by Walcott's his unique view of history makes it the destination of post-colonial cultural identity.Through perceiving and capturing various kinds of landscape images,the poet depicted the ideal coexistence mode of different cultural subjects,and reconstructs an infinite imaginary community with a wide vision.