In the following essay on Walcott's Dream on Monkey Mountain, author Robert Elliot Fox examines the use of metaphor and meaning in a play he— and Walcott—have described as "a dream," and discusses the social implications that the dreams, spirit-talks, and fantasies of the novel's protagonist carry.
In Derek Walcott's own words, "The play is a dream, one that exists as much in the given minds of its principal.....
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