In these lines from "The Schooner Flight", the Odyssean figure of Shabine, expresses a sense of…
The dramatic monologue 'The Schooner Flight' (from 'The Star-Apple Kingdom', 1979), spoken by the mixed-race sailor Shabine ('either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation'), was…
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In these lines from "The Schooner Flight", the Odyssean figure of Shabine, expresses a sense of uncertainty about his identity and mixed African and European ancestry.
I'm just a red nigger who love the sea
I had a sound colonial education
I have Dutch nigger and English in me and either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation.
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The dramatic monologue 'The Schooner Flight' (from 'The Star-Apple Kingdom', 1979), spoken by the mixed-race sailor Shabine ('either I'm nobody, or I'm a nation'), was written by St. Lucian poet Derek Walcott.
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