Linn Cary Mehta

Poetry and Politics of Decolonization

Yeats, Tagore, Senghor, Césaire, and Neruda

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Mehta examines the interaction between poetry and politics in colonies and former colonies of England, France, and Spain during the era of decolonization. The years between 1914 and 1950 coincide with the growth of nationalism and form a bridge from colonial to postcolonial literatures. Many of the poets involved with the struggle for decolonization became the voice of their respective nations. At both a political and linguistic level, their poetry reveals a struggle for independence and self-definition. Modernist form plays a decisive role in this struggle. These poets cannot be read independently of their involvement with their countries' individual struggles for political and cultural freedom. Yeats and Tagore redefined Irish and Bengali poetry, respectively, in the early twentieth century in opposition to the British colonial presence; the poetry of Senghor and Césaire creates the concept of negritude as a reaction to France's policy of assimilating its colonials; and Neruda in his poetry, long after independence from Spain, marks out an identity for Chile and Latin America that challenges European and North American traditions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9783659628931
• ISBN-10: 365962893X
• Artikelnr.: 42772837

Autorenporträt

Linn Cary Mehta received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2004 and has taught at Columbia, Yale, Vassar, and Barnard College and at NYU. She studied at Yale (BA '77) and Oxford (MA '88), and worked in Education and Culture at the Ford Foundation. She is married to the writer Ved Mehta and lives in New York City.