Postcolonial Poetics

Author : Elleke Boehmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319903415

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Postcolonial Poetics by Elleke Boehmer Pdf

Postcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book’s eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from various 21st-century contexts, including southern and West Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where reading is taken as an inventive, border-traversing activity, one that postcolonial writing with its interests in margins, intersections, subversions, and crossings specifically encourages. This close, sustained focus on reading, reception, and literariness is an outstanding feature of the study, as is its wide generic range, embracing poetry, essays, and life-writing, as well as fiction. The field-defining scholar Elleke Boehmer holds that literature has the capacity to keep reimagining and refreshing how we understand ourselves in relation to the world and to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including resistance, reconciliation, survival after terror, and migration.

Author : Patrick Crowley,Jane Hiddleston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781846317453

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Postcolonial Poetics by Patrick Crowley,Jane Hiddleston Pdf

Responding to calls to focus on postcolonial literature's literary qualities instead of merely its political content, this volume investigates the idiosyncrasies of postcolonial poetics. However, rather than privileging the literary at the expense of the political, the essays collected here analyze how texts use genre and form to offer multiple and distinct ways of responding to political and historical questions. By probing how different kinds of literary writing can blur with other discourses, the contributors offer key insights into postcolonial literature's power to imagine alternative identities and societies.

Author : Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199298884

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Postcolonial Poetry in English by Rajeev S. Patke Pdf

"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.

Author : Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400841424

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The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics by Stephen Cushman,Clare Cavanagh,Jahan Ramazani,Paul Rouzer Pdf

The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time

Author : Dorothee Klein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000464894

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Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction by Dorothee Klein Pdf

This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in New Formalism and narrative theory, the book illustrates how they use a broad range of narrative techniques to mediate, negotiate, and temporarily create networks of relations that interlink all elements of the universe. Through this focus on relationality, Aboriginal writing gains both local and global significance. Locally, these narratives assert Indigenous sovereignty by staging an unbroken interrelatedness of people and their land. Globally, they intervene into current discourses about humanity’s relationship with the natural environment, urging readers to acknowledge our interrelatedness with and dependence on the land that sustains us.

Author : Robert Fraser
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN : 0719053714

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Lifting the Sentence by Robert Fraser Pdf

Art, politics and dissent provides a counter history to conventional accounts of American art.. Close historical examinations of particular events in Los Angeles and New York in the 1960s are interwoven with discussion of the location of these events, normally marginalised or overlooked, in the history of cultural politics in the United States during the postwar period.. This book is based on detailed and new research from a range of sources including the alternative press, such as the Los Angeles Free Press; public and private archives; interviews and oral histories.. Interdisciplinary in approach, it adds substantially to recent innovative research and teaching approaches in art history and other related disciplines.. Provides essential case studies for taught courses; scholarly debate and general cross-disciplinary readership.

Author : Rajeev S. Patke
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191538384

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Postcolonial Poetry in English by Rajeev S. Patke Pdf

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies 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. The idea of postcolonial poetry is held together by three factors: the global community constituted by English; the creative possibilities accessible through English; and patterns of literary development common to regions with a history of recent decolonization. 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, and how does poetry contribute to our idea of postcolonial writing? The book is divided into three parts: the first works out a method of analysis based on recent publications of outstanding interest; the second narrates the development of poetic traditions in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean, and the settler colonies of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand; the third analyses key motifs, such as the struggle for minority self-representation; the cultural politics of gender, modernism, and postmodernity; and the experience of migration and self-exile in contemporary Anglophone societies. Postcolonial Poetry in English provides a succinct and wide-ranging introduction to some of the most exciting poetic writing of the twentieth century. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032241187

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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame's destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.

Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107090712

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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry by Jahan Ramazani Pdf

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

Author : Jahan Ramazani
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226703371

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A Transnational Poetics by Jahan Ramazani Pdf

Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous—“stubbornly national,” in T. S. Eliot’s phrase, or “the most provincial of the arts,” according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination—in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post–World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates—globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora—he discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres.

Author : Nathan Suhr-Sytsma
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107166844

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Poetry, Print, and the Making of Postcolonial Literature by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma Pdf

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

Author : David Attwell,Annalisa Pes,Susanna Zinato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429513756

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Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature by David Attwell,Annalisa Pes,Susanna Zinato Pdf

Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ethical recognition, the problem of shamelessness, the shame of willed forgetfulness. Linked by a common thread of reflections on shame and literary writing, the essays consider specifically whether the aesthetic and ethical capacities of literature enable a measure of stability or recuperation in the presence of shame’s destructive potential. The obscenity of the in-human, both in the colonial setting and in aftermaths that show little sign of abating, entails the acute significance of shame as a subject for continuing and urgent critical attention.

Author : J. Neil C. Garcia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : UOM:39015061502673

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Postcolonialism and Filipino Poetics by J. Neil C. Garcia Pdf

Author : Nissa Parmar
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781438468457

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Multicultural Poetics by Nissa Parmar Pdf

Argues that multiculturalism and hybridity are key components of the nation’s poetry and its culture. Multicultural Poetics provides a new perspective on American poetry that will contribute to the evolution of contemporary critical practice. Nissa Parmar combines formalist analysis with cultural studies theory to trace a lineage of hybrid poetry from the American Renaissance to what Marilyn Chin deemed America’s “multicultural renaissance,” the blossoming of multicultural literature in the 1980s and 1990s. This re-visionary literary history begins by analyzing Whitman and Dickinson as postcolonial poets. This critical approach provides an alternative to the factionalism that has characterized twentieth-century American poetic history and continues to inform literary criticism in the twenty-first century. Parmar uses a multiethnic, multigender method that emphasizes the relationship between American poetic form and cultural development. This book provides a new approach by using hybridity as the critical paradigm for a study that groups multiethnic and emergent authors. It thereby combats literary ghettoization while revealing commonalities across American literatures and the cross-fertilization that has informed their development. “Parmar demonstrates her mastery of the immense body of scholarship devoted to the poetic lineage Multicultural Poetics engages. She writes with elegance and tact and displays her ability to simplify several concepts—liminality, the third space, interstitiality—of the most confounding of contemporary theorists.” — Donald E. Pease, author of The New American Exceptionalism

Author : Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783476055989

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Postcolonial Literatures in English by Anke Bartels,Lars Eckstein,Nicole Waller,Dirk Wiemann Pdf

The term ‘postcolonial literatures in English’ designates English-language literatures from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania, as well as the literatures of diasporic communities who have moved from those regions to the global north. This volume introduces the central themes of postcolonial literary studies and delineates how these themes are reflected and elaborated in exemplary literary works by postcolonial authors from around the world. It also offers succinct definitions of key terms like Orientalism, hybridity, Indigeneity or writing back.