Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings

by Elleke Boehmer

Book Overview

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 Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030079953
• ISBN13: 9783030079956
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"