Global anglophone poetry : literary form and social critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra /

"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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hena, Omaar, 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
Subjects:	Poetry > Social aspects. Literature and globalization. Literary form. Literature and society. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / African. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry.

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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.