The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

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

Jahan Ramazani (Edited by)

9781107090712, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 February 2017

310 pages
23.6 x 15.8 x 2.2 cm, 0.55 kg

'… 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

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.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: post-colonial literature [DSBH5], Poetry by individual poets [DCF], Poetry [DC]