Excerpt from my Global Literary Theory Honors Thesis, “Mirroring the Postcolonial Muse: A Study of Imbrication in Jean Rhys’ s Wide Sargasso Sea and Derek Walcott’ s Omeros.”
The variety of wounds that each character in Omeros bears, however, elucidates their imbricated nature. Walcott’s subjects are imbricated by the historical, mythic, and textual fabric that the island and its inhabitants represent.