Postcolonial Poetics 21st-Century Critical Readings /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Boehmer, Elleke (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Literature .; African literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Literature, Modern-21st century.; Postcolonial/World Literature.; African Literature.; Contemporary Literature.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Postcolonial poetics-a score for reading
• 2. Questions of postcolonial poetics
• 3. Revisiting Resistance literature-writing in juxtaposition
• 4. Postcolonial writing, terror, and continuity: Okri, D'Aguiar, NourbeSe Philip, Shire
• 5. Repetitive poetics-when crisis defines a nation's writing. Contemporary South African novels
• 6. Poetics and persistence: Chinua Achebe's shaping influence
• 7. Concepts of exchange-poetics in postcolonial, world, and world-system literatures
• 8. The transformative force of the postcolonial line: protest poetry and the global short story.