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Comparing the Impact of Colonization in Brand's 'Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater' and Walcott's 'A Far Cry from Africa'

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and most recently, North American influences. Both feel torn between their affiliations between their homes in Trinidad, America (Walcott), and Canada (Brand). In Walcotts "A Far Cry from Africa" he  tries to explain his torment of being both African and European. He loves the English language and literature, all aspects of the colonization which captured the West Indies, yet he  loathes the devastation and brutality from which that colonization was formed. Brand feels equally torn between her heritage but in "Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater" you get a sense that  Mammy has not only mentally overcome her oppressors bonds but has also manipulated modern man and technology and in a sense has overcome her conflict leaving her spirituality intact.  Derek Alton Walcott (1930-) considers himself to be "a mulatto of style" as he explores his self-identity between his African and European ancestry, being  born in St. Lucia and currently dividing his time between the United States and Trinidad. He is considered by many to be the most important West Indian poet and dramatist  writing in English today (Books and Writers). Not only is the conflict of his own struggle found within his poetry but also  the struggle of colonization of the West Indies and slavery issues from conception to independence. In his poem "A Far Cry from Africa", Walcott describes "Statistics justify and scholars seize/The  salients of colonial policy" while relating the tortures of a multiple of races which have been victims of crimes of racial discrimination (Walcott). Walcott is conflicted about what he should  do and how he should feel since he has the blood of Europeans and Africans within him during this bloodthirsty time: Where