Question

Postcolonialism in dream on monkey mountain

Answer 1

 presented on Derek Walcott’s “Dream on Monkey Mountain” and paired it with “Chapter VI: Of the Training of Black Men” from The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B Du Bois. The main focus of my discussion was on the close parallels between the conditions and treatment of black people post slavery and post-colonialism. Du Bois discusses the black man’s attempt to reclaim humanity and readjust to life after slavery in America, whereas Walcott’s play addresses the struggles of the black man in a post-colonial context of a West Indian Island. There was a lot of material in “Monkey Mountain”, for various kinds of discussions, so I ended up adding some material that some of you may (or may not) find useful. I hope that the way I structure this is comprehensible.