Cultural Translation and Postcolonial Poetry Reflexive Worlds

by Bery, Ashok

• ISBN13: 9781403933102
• ISBN10: 1403933103
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Ashok Bery moves the discussion of postcolonial poetry forward by applying transnational perspectives. This timely study looks at a selection of poets from different areas, including Heaney, Walcott, and Ramanujan. While making cross-cultural comparisons, the book situates works in their specific national, poetic, cultural, and political contexts. In contrast to most postcolonial criticism, particular attention is paid to the language and form of the poems.

Author Biography

Ashok Bery is senior lecturer in English at London Metropolitan University and a contributing editor to Wasafiri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Copyright Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Cultural Translation	p. 6
Songlines: Judith Wright and Belonging	p. 23
Fusion and Translation: Les Murray's Australia	p. 51
Louis MacNeice, Ireland and India	p. 74
Seamus Heaney's Acoustics	p. 101
Indian Palimpsests: The Poetry of A. K. Ramanujan	p. 132
Fragmentation and Restoration in Derek Walcott's Omeros	p. 156
Conclusion	p. 179
Notes	p. 184
Select Bibliography	p. 205
Index	p. 216
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