Postcolonial Poetics: 21st-Century Critical Readings

by Elleke Boehmer

Book Overview

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,...

• 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"