The Cambridge companion to postcolonial poetry / edited by Jahan Ramazani.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramazani, Jahan, 1960- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to topics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth poetry (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth poetry (English).

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism.

Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 276 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Postcolonial poetry

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. The essays encompass a broad range of English-speakers from the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and the Pacific Islands; the former settler colonies, such as Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, especially non-Europeans; Ireland, Britain's oldest colony; and postcolonial Britain itself, particularly black and Asian immigrants and their descendants. The comparative essays analyze poetry from across the postcolonial anglophone world in relation to postcolonialism and modernism, fixed and free forms, experimentation, oral performance and creole languages, protest poetry, the poetic mapping of urban and rural spaces, poetic embodiments of sexuality and gender, poetry and publishing history, and poetry's response to, and reimagining of, globalization. Strengthening the place of poetry in postcolonial studies, this Companion also contributes to the globalization of poetry studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction Jahan Ramazani; Part I. Regions: 1. Postcolonial Caribbean poetry Laurence Breiner; 2. Postcolonial African poetry Oyeniyi Okunoye; 3. Postcolonial South Asian poetry Laetitia Zecchini; 4. Postcolonial Pacific poetries: becoming Oceania Rob Wilson; 5. Postcolonial poetry of Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand David McCooey; 6. Postcolonial Canadian poetry Stephen Collis; 7. Postcolonial poetry of Ireland Justin Quinn; 8. Postcolonial poetry of Great Britain Gemma Robinson; Part II. Styles: 9. Multi-centric modernism and postcolonial poetry Robert Stilling; 10. Postcolonial poetry and form Stephen Burt; 11. Postcolonial poetry and experimentalism Lee M. Jenkins; 12. Orality, Creoles, and postcolonial poetry in performance Janet Neigh; 13. Postcolonial protest poetry Rajeev S. Patke; Part III. Spaces, Embodiments, Disseminations: 14. The city, place, and postcolonial poetry Anjali Nerlekar; 15. Landscape, the environment, and postcolonial poetry Harry Garuba; 16. Gender and sexuality in postcolonial poetry Lyn Innes; 17. Publishing postcolonial poetry Nathan Suhr-Sytsma; 18. Globalization and postcolonial poetry Omaar Hena.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107090712

1107090717

9781107462878

1107462878

OCLC:

969424955