Auteur : Laetitia Zecchini

Direction d'ouvrage : Jahan Ramazani

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Journal : The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry

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.

Thematic axes : Avant-gardes et modernité // Avant-Gardes & Modernities, Approches historiques des modernités littéraires et artistiques, Dynamiques interculturelles, Politiques des littératures et des arts : enjeux et situations

Keywords : Poetry, Indian Studies, Postcolonial studies