Global anglophone poetry
Subtitle: literary form and social critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra
By: Omaar Hena
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 197
ISBN-13: 9781137502872
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Literature and society; Literary form; Social aspects; Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Literature and globalization; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "Engaging key debates in world literature, Omaar Hena examines how prominent poets renovate the long poetic tradition, from Homer to Seamus Heaney, to engage local, political realities and the sweeping pressures of globalization. The formal resources of poetry, for Hena, furnish the aesthetic means for critiquing urgent social inequalities facing the postcolonial world and minorities in the Global North. At the same time, he demonstrates how it is by virtue of working within canonical forms that world poets gain international recognition and prestige. Looking to writers as diverse Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, Ingrid de Kok, and Daljit Nagra and others, Hena combines a close attention to the nuances of literary form with an analysis of the national contexts and the wider divisions of the global literary marketplace shaping contemporary poetic production. Ultimately, this book renews the relevance of poetry to create more robust models of worldly belonging suited to the complexities of our new, and historically familiar, global realities"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction1. Derek Walcott's Poetics of Global Economy in Omeros2. Playing Indian / Disintegrating Irishness: Paul Muldoon and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Comparison3. Recomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok4. Literary Citizenship in Daljit NagraConclusion.