Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry

This book uses the framework of cultural translation to explore the work of six significant modern writers from Ireland, India, Australia and the Caribbean. Written in an accessible and approachable style, it will be of interest not only to specialists in postcolonial literatures, but also readers of modern and contemporary poetry more generally.

List of contents

Acknowledgements Cultural Translation Songlines: Judith Wright and Belonging Fusion and Translation: Les Murray's Australia Louis MacNeice, Ireland, India Seamus Heaney's Acoustics Indian Palimpsets: The Poetry of A.K. Ramanujan Fragmentation and Restoration in Derek Walcott's Omeros Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

About the author

ASHOK BERY is a Senior Lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University, UK. He is the co-editor of Comparing Postcolonial Literatures (2000), and the author of numerous articles on postcolonial literatures.

Summary

This book uses the framework of cultural translation to explore the work of six significant modern writers from Ireland, India, Australia and the Caribbean. Written in an accessible and approachable style, it will be of interest not only to specialists in postcolonial literatures, but also readers of modern and contemporary poetry more generally.

Product details

• Authors: A Bery, A. Bery
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349516407
• ISBN: 978-1-349-51640-7
• No. of pages: 221
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 217 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 297 g
• Illustrations: VIII, 221 p.
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Literaturtheorie, Europa, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Literaturwissenschaft: 1900 bis 2000, Literature, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, World Literature, Culture—Study and teaching, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Literature—Philosophy, Postcolonial/World Literature, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection