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Zusatztext The first books in this series are exemplary. Newell, Patke, and Keown all achieve the difficult task of combining accessible, wide-ranging and authoritative introductions to particular areas and genres with new perspectives and fresh insights into specific texts. I found them remarkably readable and rewarding. Informationen zum Autor Rajeev Patke was born in Pune, India. He read English literature for a BA and an MA from Pune and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at the University of Pune, and has taught at the National University of Singapore since 1988. He has authored a book on the long poems of Wallace Stevens (Cambridge, 1985), co-edited several books on literature and culture, and his ongoing research interests include the writings of Walter Benjamin, and the relation between poetry and painting. Klappentext This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture. Zusammenfassung This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English! contemporary literature! postcolonial writing! cultural studies! and postmodern culture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Introduction 1: Poetry and Postcoloniality 2: Back to the Future Part 2: The Development of Local Traditions 3: Asia 4: The Caribbean 5: Black Africa 6: The Settler Countries Part 3: Case Studies: Voice and Technique 7: Minoritarian Sensibilities 8: Techniques of Self-representation 9: Recurrent Motifs: Voyage and Translation 10: After the 'Post-' ...
