Which writer used lines from Othello to critique racism in a poem?
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Correct answer: C. Derek Walcott
Explanation
Walcott's 'Goats and Monkeys' (The Castaway, 1965) takes its title and epigraph from Iago's 'an old black ram / Is tupping your white ewe'.
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