The Island Blazed
A Blinding Light andTiepolo's Hound
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2170180 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatriz Llenín-Figueroa (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-191 |
| Publication date | 2014-04-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13569325.2014.893230 |
| OpenAlex | W2014087020 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
This essay is primarily a study of Derek Walcott's Tiepolo's Hound as an affirmation of Caribbean, tropical, blinding light through an engagement with the life and work of Camille Pissarro. Conceived as such, the poem, I argue, proposes an "adamic" vision and imagination attuned with "Time" rather than "History" (the concepts are Walcott's), as well as an intensification of sensory-perception beyond vision. In order to better appreciate the historical and contextual relevance of Tiepolo's Hound, the essay provides first a general introduction to: (1) a nuanced understanding of light and its "otherness" emerging from modern physics; (2) some of the ways in which western capitalism and Cartesian perspectivism, as a hegemonic aesthetic and philosophical tradition in the West, have attempted to capture and control light and its "otherness;" and (3) the blinding quality of light in the tropical context, which repositions light as a force against any and all exploitative capitalist desires
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Blinding · Capitalism · Consumerism · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hegemony · Literature · Perspectivism · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · History · History of Science and Natural History · Law · Philosophy · Travel Writing and Literature
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |