Poetry, print, and the making of postcolonial literature /

Poetry, print, and the making of postcolonial literature /

The book reveals how mid-twentieth-century African, Caribbean, Irish, and British poets profoundly affected each other in person and in print.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suhr-Sytsma, Nathan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Commonwealth poetry (English) > History and criticism.
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Postcolonialism > Commonwealth countries.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Colonies in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Negotiating the era of decolonization
  • Provincializing the Greenwich Meridian
  • Interchapter: Mbari publications and the CIA
  • Editing the commonwealth
  • Interchapter: Derek Walcott and the London Magazine
  • Fashioning the modern African poet
  • Interchapter: James Simmons's Nigeria and the honest Ulsterman
  • Publishing the troubles
  • Conclusion: the haunting of Seamus Heaney and Geoffrey Hill.