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Literature on December 10,1992.His Nobel lecture is a stirring evo-cation of the multivalent wholeness ofthe culture of the Antilles,forged out ofa violent history against a land-andseascape of immemorial dimensions.“Caribbean culture is not evolving butalready shaped,\"writes Walcott.\"Itsproportions are not to be measured bythe traveller or the exile,but by its owncitizenry and architecture.\"He finds theimage of this culture in the city of Portof Spain,Trinidad,\"mongrelized,poly-glot,a ferment without a history,likeheaven.\"And watching a group of EastIndian Trinidadians reenact the Hinduepic the Ramayana in the small villageof Felicity,he meditates on the sacredcelebration of joy,the rehearsal of col-lective memory,that is the very essenceof human experience,beyond history.Walcott's lecture is a powerful reenvi-sioning of the themes that have ener-gized and informed his poetry.  \n一  \n# THE ANTILLES\n\nFragments of Epic Memory  \nj  \nFragments of Epic Memory  \nDEREK WALCOTT  \nThe Nobel Lecture  \nFarrar,Straus and Giroux  \nNew York  \nCopyright C1992by The Nobel FoundationAll rights reserved  \nPublished simultaneously in Canadaby HarperCollinsCanadaLtdPrinted in the United States of AmericaDesigned by Cynthia KrupatFirst edition,1993  \nLibrary of Congress catalog card number:92-076024","cbCaio76VRfLum88","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaio76VRfLum88","pdf",1924578,56,"English","# Fragments of Epic Memory\n## The Nobel Lecture\n## The Antilles","[{\"question\":\"What does Derek Walcott identify as the essence of Caribbean culture in his Nobel lecture?\",\"answer\":\"Walcott identifies Caribbean culture as a multivalent, polyglot, and already shaped entity, defined by its own citizenry and unique architecture rather than by the perspective of outsiders or exiles.\"},{\"question\":\"What specific event in Trinidad does Walcott use to illustrate his meditation on human experience?\",\"answer\":\"Walcott observes a group of East Indian Trinidadians in the village 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