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Global Anglophone PoetryIntroduction

Global Anglophone Poetry: Introduction [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 often narrative fiction, imaginatively represents the flows of cultures, peoples, ideas, and economy across national boundaries and the ways literary institutions contribute to the globalization of world literature. In the midst of the global turn in literary studies, I study how contemporary poets on both sides of the Atlantic reinvigorate canonical literary forms associated with the long poetic tradition to engage local, political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity at large. Through a series of close readings, I examine how the formal resources of poetry furnish the aesthetic means for critiquing urgent social inequalities facing the postcolonial world and ethnic minorities in the global North. For instance, each chapter pursues how contemporary poetry engages a range of problems stemming from globalization such as poverty and underdevelopment, political violence and genocide, the politics of cross-cultural appropriation, and ethnic migration and citizenship.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Global Anglophone PoetryIntroduction

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Palgrave Macmillan US
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© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2015
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978-1-349-56183-4
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1 –22
DOI
10.1057/9781137499615_1
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[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 often narrative fiction, imaginatively represents the flows of cultures, peoples, ideas, and economy across national boundaries and the ways literary institutions contribute to the globalization of world literature. In the midst of the global turn in literary studies, I study how contemporary poets on both sides of the Atlantic reinvigorate canonical literary forms associated with the long poetic tradition to engage local, political realities and the sweeping pressures of modernity at large. Through a series of close readings, I examine how the formal resources of poetry furnish the aesthetic means for critiquing urgent social inequalities facing the postcolonial world and ethnic minorities in the global North. For instance, each chapter pursues how contemporary poetry engages a range of problems stemming from globalization such as poverty and underdevelopment, political violence and genocide, the politics of cross-cultural appropriation, and ethnic migration and citizenship.]

Published: Dec 1, 2015

Keywords: Cultural Capital; World Literature; Literary Form; African National Congress; Literary Creation

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