The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

by Jahan Ramazani (Editor)

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.

Genres: Poetry

306 pages, Paperback

Published February 27, 2017

Reviews

[Luna☆ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Indispensable Guide in postcolonial study

I knew I had to grab this when the ebook was only £15. I'd buy vodka for more than that so I thought, hey, why not get something that's actually useful?
The introduction mentions how scarce specific studies of postcolonial poetry are and that's definitely true, so this companion is a bit of a lifesaver. It goes through three detailed sections with contributions from various scholars which made the reading experience easy to digest and, date I say it, enjoyable.
So if you think you need it you won't regret getting it and if you think you want it then you should genuinely enjoy it.