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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

Jahan Ramazani editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:27th Feb '17

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This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore the postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. Strengthening the place of poetry in postcolonial studies, the Companion also contributes to the globalization of poetry studies.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.

'… this title meets the high standards we expect from the Cambridge Companion to Literature series. Recommended for university and college libraries supporting literature courses and larger public libraries seeking to ensure their poetry collections reflect current thinking in the field.' Linda Kemp, Reference Reviews

ISBN: 9781107462878

Dimensions: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm

Weight: 460g

306 pages