Description
Global Anglophone Poetry, 1st ed. 2015
Literary Form and Social Critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series
Author: Hena Omaar
Language: English
Publication date: 08-2015
197 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
197 p. · 14x21.6 cm · Hardback
Description
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Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows that poets throughout the world have reinvigorated older poetic traditions to address political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity.
Introduction
1. Derek Walcott ' 's Poetics of Global Economy in Omeros
2. Playing Indian / Disintegrating Irishness: Paul Muldoon and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Comparison
3. Recomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok
4. Literary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra
Conclusion
Omaar Hena is Associate Professor of English at Wake Forest University, USA.
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