Postcolonial Poetry in English"Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of English poetry in all the regions that were once part of the British Empire. In showing how diverse poetic traditions in English evolved from dependency to varying degrees of cultural self-confidence, the book answers two broad questions: How is postcolonial studies relevant to the interpretation of poetry? How does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing?"--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
South Asia and Southeast Asia | 3 |
Black Africa | 111 |
The settler countries | 130 |
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A. K. Ramanujan Abiku aboriginal African poetry Agha Shahid Ali American ancestors apartheid Asia Asian Australian Benjamin Zephaniah birth mother brahmin Brathwaite Britain British Canada Caribbean century child colonial contemporary context Creole culture Dabydeen David Dabydeen Delhi Derek Walcott describes developed Dharwadker dialect displacement dramatizes dub poetry Empire Essays ethnic European evokes exile experience Grace Nichols Guyana Heinemann Hong human imagined independence indigenous invoked Ireland Irish islands Jamaica Kolatkar language Lawino linguistic literary Literature live London Malay Marathi memory Merle Collins metaphor migration modernist modernity myth narrative nation native Okot oral Oxford University Press poet poetic poetry in English political postcolonial poetry prose readers region relation resistance rhythms role Selected Poems self-exile sense sequence settler Singapore Singlish slave societies Song Song of Lawino South Africa style tongue tradition translation verse violence voice voyage Walcott woman words writing in English Zealand
References to this book
The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English C. L. Innes No preview available - 2007 |