Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry
Subtitle: Reflexive Worlds
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: January 8, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781403933102
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Poetry texts & anthologies; History Of Philosophy; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Asian - Indic; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; General; History & Surveys - Modern; Commonwealth countries; Commonwealth poetry (English); History and criticism; Language and culture; Postcolonialism in literature
Description: "This is a major new comparative study of six significant modern poets from the Anglophone postcolonial world: Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, A.K. Ramanujan, Les Murray, Judith Wright and Derek Walcott. It looks at the way in which cultural conflicts in Ireland, India, Australia and the Caribbean are explored in the work of these poets, and moves the discussion of postcolonial poetry forward by applying transnational perspectives to the subject while situating the work of these poets in specific national and cultural contexts. Written, in an accessible and approachable style, it will be of interest not only to specialists in postcolonial literatures, but also to readers of modern and contemporary poetry more generally."--Jacket.