Abstract:"The tidalectic, a tidal dialectic between the land, the sea, and the beach, is as follows: the land embodies the hypothesis, the sea the antithesis, and the beach the synthesis. Because the beach serves as the synthesizing locus for a Caribbean poetics of beginnings in Omeros, I am adapting Kamau Brathwaite's neologism of the tidalectic to re-name the threefold relation between these natural spaces, as opposed to Hegel's dialectic, which would abrogate the spirit and intention of a Caribbean nation-making poem. The use of the tidalectic is redefined as a poetic nod to Walcott's adamic act of re-naming and as a cue to the overall aim of this undertaking, which is to re-view Omeros through first and foremost a rebuttal of the very name that has kept it as an outpost of the very same empire it wishes to expel."

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不确定性之沙：德里克沃尔科特的《奥梅罗斯》中自然和文化的潮汐合成

摘要：“潮汐辩证法是陆地、海洋和海滩之间的一种潮汐辩证法，它是这样的：陆地体现假设，海洋是对立，海滩是综合。因为海滩是综合的场所。作为起源于 Omeros 的加勒比诗学，我正在改编 Kamau Brathwaite 的潮汐学新词来重新命名这些自然空间之间的三重关系，而不是黑格尔的辩证法，这将废除加勒比国家建设诗的精神和意图。潮汐法的使用被重新定义为对沃尔科特重新命名的亚当行为的诗意点头，并作为对这项事业的总体目标的暗示，即首先通过反驳Omeros的名字来重新审视Omeros保留它作为它希望驱逐的同一个帝国的前哨。”