LEADER 03657nam 22005175 450 001 9910299999903321 005 20200704070023.0 010 $a3-319-90341-1 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-90341-5 035 $a(CKB)4100000004974937 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5438656 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-90341-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004974937 100 $a20180627d2018 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPostcolonial Poetics$b[electronic resource] $e21st-Century Critical Readings /$fby Elleke Boehmer 205 $a1st ed. 2018. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2018. 215 $a1 online resource (227 pages) 311 $a3-319-90340-3 327 $a1. Postcolonial poetics?a score for reading -- 2. Questions of postcolonial poetics -- 3. Revisiting Resistance literature?writing in juxtaposition -- 4. Postcolonial writing, terror, and continuity: Okri, D?Aguiar, NourbeSe Philip, Shire -- 5. Repetitive poetics?when crisis defines a nation?s writing. Contemporary South African novels -- 6. Poetics and persistence: Chinua Achebe?s shaping influence -- 7. Concepts of exchange?poetics in postcolonial, world, and world-system literatures -- 8. The transformative force of the postcolonial line: protest poetry and the global short story. 330 $aPostcolonial Poetics is about how we read postcolonial and world literatures today, and about how the structures of that writing shape our reading. The book?s eight chapters explore the ways in which postcolonial writing in English from various 21st-century contexts, including southern and West Africa, and Black and Asian Britain, interacts with our imaginative understanding of the world. Throughout, the focus is on reading practices, where reading is taken as an inventive, border-traversing activity, one that postcolonial writing with its interests in margins, intersections, subversions, and crossings specifically encourages. This close, sustained focus on reading, reception, and literariness is an outstanding feature of the study, as is its wide generic range, embracing poetry, essays, and life-writing, as well as fiction. The field-defining scholar Elleke Boehmer holds that literature has the capacity to keep reimagining and refreshing how we understand ourselves in relation to the world and to some of the most pressing questions of our time, including resistance, reconciliation, survival after terror, and migration. 606 $aLiterature    606 $aAfrican literature 606 $aLiterature, Modern?20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern?21st century 606 $aPostcolonial/World Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/838000 606 $aAfrican Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/829000 606 $aContemporary Literature$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/815000 615 0$aLiterature   . 615 0$aAfrican literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?20th century. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern?21st century. 615 14$aPostcolonial/World Literature. 615 24$aAfrican Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a820.809171241 700 $aBoehmer$b Elleke$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0482234 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910299999903321 996 $aPostcolonial Poetics$92242489 997 $aUNINA