"A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into current debates on the planetary and the post-national"--
"A systematic analysis of contemporary verse novels and how textual gaps serve as symbolic interventions into current debates on the planetary and the post-national"--
Dirk Wiemann is Chair in English Literature at University of Potsdam, Germany. He is author of Genres of Modernity: Contemporary Indian Novels in English (2008) and Postcolonial Literatures in English: An Introduction (2019, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller), and editor of numerous collections, including Postcolonial Justice (2017, with Anke Bartels, Lars Eckstein and Nicole Waller).
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List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: In the gutter ... 1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form 1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts 1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness 1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms 1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green's Sinking 2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb 2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott's Omeros 2.2 'Links between geology and character': Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela 2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin's The Folding Cliffs 3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation 3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos 3.2 'But I dreamt of creating mosaics': Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe 3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales 3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in m. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! 4. Epilogue: . looking at the stars Bibliography Index
List of figures Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: In the gutter ... 1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form 1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts 1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness 1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms 1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green's Sinking 2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb 2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott's Omeros 2.2 'Links between geology and character': Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela 2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin's The Folding Cliffs 3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation 3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos 3.2 'But I dreamt of creating mosaics': Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe 3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales 3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in m. NourbeSe Philip's Zong! 4. Epilogue: . looking at the stars Bibliography Index
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