Palimpsest And The Environment

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In Eco-Imagination African and Diasporan Literatures and Sustainability written by Irene Assiba d’Almeida, Lucie Viakinnou-Brinson and Thelma Pinto, we see how the course objectives, “the narratives of environmental justice in developing countries” (Missihoun, Syllabus) is effecting our world. This paper will clearly define palimpsests, and the double bind. It will also include their effects on the issue of the environment. We will also see the critique in The World’s Environment: Ecocriticism in the Diaspora James McCorkle’s approach to Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott’s poem. Another approach is what Uchenna Pamela Vasser has said in her book, The Double Bind: Women and the Environment, which is about women of color who work and are not traditional stay at home moms. Brathwaite and Walcott both agree on palimpsests. Palimpsest is “a …show more content…
The issue is that Brathwaite and Walcott are both against each other, even though they have the same view on destruction of history. Who wins the war, gets to write the history. Many encounters, migrations, negotiations, and wars have re-mapped the Caribbean’s history. It is almost like they are white washing the history away. James McCorkle talks about “in his paper Re-Visioning a Poetics of Landscape: Resistance and Continuum in the Poetry of Kamau Brathwaite and Derek Walcott, he points out that though often set in opposition, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite are alike in condemning as ahistorical and destructive the intertwined human and natural environments, consumerism, and touristic development in the Caribbean. Both see language and the landscape as palimpsests of histories as well as spiritually interconnected” (Eco-Imagination, 7, McCorkle). McCorkle’s view is about how the authors are thinking the same thing. The authors, both condemn the tourist destruction of the land. In Derek Walcott’s poem, Omeros, “the island of Saint Lucia was historically known as ‘the

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