Postcolonial poetry in English /
Rajeev S. Patke
- Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
- xii, 267 p.; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-258) and index.
PART I INTRODUCTION 1 Poetry and postcoloniality 1.1 Terms, contexts, and perspectives 1.2 English in Britain: assimilation and resistance 1.3 Local themes, global applications 2 Back to the future 2.1 English as a ’foreign anguish’: Nourbese Philip 2.2 ’no darkie baby in this house’: Jackie Kay 2.3 ’the invisible mending of the heart’: Ingrid de Kok PART II THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL TRADITIONS 3 South Asia and Southeast Asia 3.1 Macaulay’s minutemen 3.2 The Indian subcontinent 3.3 Southeast Asia 4 The Caribbean 4.1 Colonization and hybridity 4.2 Poetry and place 4.3 Poetry as performance: Caribbean orality 5 Black Africa 5.1 From colony to nation in Africa 5.2 The cost of protest 5.3 The ambivalence of cultural nationalism 6 The settier countries 6.1 Writing region and nation 6.2 Breaking with the past 6.3 Becoming modern PART III CASE STUDIES: VOICE AND TECHNIQUE 7 Minoritarian sensibilities 7.1 Oceania 7.2 ’Indigenes* and settler minorities 7.3 Black Britain and the Caribbean diaspora 8 Techniques of self-representation 8.1 Modernism and hybridity: black Africa 8.2 Gender and poetry: the Caribbean 8.3 Postmodern practice: South Asia 9 Recurrent motifs: voyage and translation 9.1 The voyage home: Walcott and Brathwaite 9.2 Postcolonial exile: Ee Tiang Hong 9-3 Postcolonial translation: A. K. Ramanujan and Agha Shahid Ali 10 After the ’post-’
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Commonwealth poetry (English)--History and criticism. English poetry--History and criticism. Postcolonialism--English-speaking countries. Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries. Postcolonialism in literature.