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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramazani, Jahan, 1960- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth poetry (English)--History and criticism.

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

English poetry.

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism.

Commonwealth poetry (English).

Commonwealth countries.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 276 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

PDF

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.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316111338

Access Restriction:

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