The hybrid muse : postcolonial poetry in English
Postcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of these poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that these poets have dramatically expanded the atlas of English literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 223 pages ; 24 cm
9780226703428, 9780226703435, 0226703428, 0226703436
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Introduction
W.B. Yeats: a postcolonial poet?
The wound of postcolonial history: Derek Walcott's Omeros
Metaphor and postcoloniality: A.K. Ramanujan's poetry
Irony and postcoloniality: Louise Bennett's Anancy poetics
The poet as "native anthropologist": ethnography and antiethnography in Okot p'Bitek's Songs