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Postcolonial Poetry in English

By: Rajeev S. Patke

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Postcolonial Poetry in English

By: Rajeev S. Patke

This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world writing in English, contemporary literature, postcolonial writing, cultural studies, and postmodern culture.

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Oxford Studies in Postcolonial

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ISBN 10

0199298882

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9780199298884

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English

By: Rajeev S. Patke,Philip Holden

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The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English

By: Rajeev S. Patke,Philip Holden

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English traces the development of literature in the region within its historical and cultural contexts, establishing connections from the colonial activity of the early modern period through to contemporary writing across nations such as Thailand, China, Malaya, Singapore and Hong Kong.

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285

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Routledge

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1135257620

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9781135257620

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

By: Rajeev S. Patke

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Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

By: Rajeev S. Patke

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studiesNeither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development. This book interprets modernity as an asymmetrically global phenomenon complexly connected to the course of Western imperialism, and demonstrates how the impact of Western modernism produced new developments in writing from all the former colonies of Europe and the US. These developments constitute the afterlife of Western modernism.The various ways in which the aesthetic ideologies and writing strategies of Western modernism have been adapted, transposed and modified by some of the most innovative writers of the twentieth century is demonstrated in the book through a set of case studies, each of which juxtaposes a canonical modernist text with a postcolonial text that shows how modernist modes metamorphosed in interaction with the turbulent and volatile realities of colonies and new nations struggling to arrive at a modernity of their own in contexts marked by colonial histories. Thus Kafka's allegories are juxtaposed with the use of allegory in writers like Salman Rushdie and J.M.Coetzee; the gendered modernity of Virginia Woolf is juxtaposed with the disturbing and powerful fictions of writers such as Jean Rhys and Katherine Mansfield; the intellectualized and urbanized spirituality of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is re-read in the revisionist contexts created by the brilliant and troubled urban spirituality of writers such as Arun Kolatkar from India and a text such as The Woman Who Had Two Navels, from the Philippines.

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224

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682600

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9780748682607

Poetry and Islands

Materiality and the Creative Imagination

By: Rajeev S. Patke

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Poetry and Islands

Materiality and the Creative Imagination

By: Rajeev S. Patke

In all cultures and times, the poetic imagination has fed on the natural attributes of islands. An island is either a destination, or a home, or a place of exile and imprisonment, or simply a place to sojourn. It is an ideal vehicle for journeys treated as allegories, or for acts of finding that turn into acts of losing, or the reverse transformation. An island is not a continent; yet it can be an archipelago. An island is both a place in itself and a pretext for imaginings that need a local habitation and a name. It can give relief, and pleasure; or it can frustrate, isolate, and negate. Above all, it both invites and resists - or contains or constrains - the imagination. Poetry and Islands explores how islands become repositories of human longings and desires, a locus for some of our deepest fears and fantasies. It balances historical and geographical reference with a selective approach to poems and poets in English, and in translations into English. The study of particular poems in which islands figure in exemplary ways is balanced by a more detailed discussion of the poets who have played a major role in shaping human responses to islands on a global scale.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1783484128

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9781783484126

Poetry and Islands

Materiality and the Creative Imagination

By: Rajeev S. Patke

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Materiality and the Creative Imagination

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Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

By: Rajeev S Patke

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Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

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This book provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682619

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9780748682614

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Postcolonial Poetry in English

Postcolonial Poetry in English

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English

The Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Poetry and Islands

Poetry and Islands

Poetry and Islands

Poetry and Islands

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies

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