The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry (Cambridge Companions to Literature)

Cambridge University Press, 2/27/2017
EAN 9781107462878, ISBN10: 1107462878

Paperback, 306 pages, 22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

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.

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.