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Global Anglophone Poetry

Part of the Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9781137499615

ISBN: 978-1-349-56183-4

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 1, 2015

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Introduction

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 1 –22

[This book conducts a comparative study of the cross-cultural constitution of global anglophone poetry written over the past 30 years, in the wake of empire and the acceleration of globalization. In the past decade or so, scholars have increasingly interpreted how contemporary literature, most...
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Derek Walcott’s Poetics of Global Economy in Omeros

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 23 –54

[Readers of world literature and postcolonial studies have become well attuned to the ways Derek Walcott (b. 1930) patterns the cross-cultural constitution of the Caribbean through his sustained conversation with Western literary inheritances, what he called in 1970 “the greatest bequest the...
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Playing Indian/Disintegrating Irishness: Paul Muldoon and the Politics of Cross-Cultural Comparison

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 55 –86

[My reading of Derek Walcott’s Omeros is paradigmatic for debating the aesthetic and political complexities that arise when literary inheritances belonging to Western, canonical forms mediate intractable social contradictions stemming from global modernity and, at the same time, for investigating...
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Recomposing South Africa: Cosmopolitanism and Vulnerability in Ingrid de Kok

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 87 –120

[In her 1998 essay, “Cracked Heirlooms: Memory on Exhibition,” Ingrid de Kok (b. 1951) focuses on the vexed problem of collective mourning and memorialization in the aftermath of apartheid and acceleration of globalization in contemporary South Africa. “There is a strong impulse in the country,”...
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Literary Citizenship in Daljit Nagra

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 121 –154

[In the title poem of his debut collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! (2007), Daljit Nagra (b. 1966) updates Matthew Arnold’s “Dover Beach” to imagine the conditions of stowaways “huddled” in the bottom of a British cruiser, while above deck, “cushy come-and-go / tourists” stand at the head of...
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Conclusion

Hena, Omaar

Pages: 155 –163

[“To world is to enclose,” writes Eric Hayot, “but also to exclude. What falls in the ambit of those enclosures and exclusions will determine the political meaning of any given act of world-making, as it does so clearly in our debates in world literature” (On Literary Worlds 40). To be sure, a...

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