TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patke,Rajeev S
TI  - Postcolonial poetry in English
SN  - 9780199275649
U1  - 821.91409 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Commonwealth poetry (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - English poetry
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - English-speaking countries
KW  - Commonwealth countries
KW  - Postcolonialism in literature
N1  - 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-’
ER  -