In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the Subcontinent. The poetry analysis covers the relevance of historical allusions as well as underlying concerns of gender, ethnicity and class. Comparisons are offered between poets of different places and time periods, yielding numerous sociopolitical paradigms that surface in the poetry.…mehr
In this study, ten independent critical essays and a coda explore the English-language poetry of South Asians in terms of time, place, themes and poetic methodologies. The transnational perspective taken establishes connections between colonial and postcolonial South Asian poetry in English as well as the poetry of the old and new diaspora and the Subcontinent. The poetry analysis covers the relevance of historical allusions as well as underlying concerns of gender, ethnicity and class. Comparisons are offered between poets of different places and time periods, yielding numerous sociopolitical paradigms that surface in the poetry.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Mitali Pati Wong is a professor of English at Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina. She has published two books of literary criticism and several articles, and is the recipient of a two year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to work on South Asian literature. She lives in Orangeburg.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. Locating South Asian Voices: The Transnational Case for deleteSouth Asian Poetry in English Two. The Beginnings of the English-Language Poetry of South deleteAsians: The Colonial Era in the Indian Subcontinent Three. Strangers in Their Own Lands: English-Language Poetry deletein the Indian Subcontinent Since 1947 Four. Transnationalism and Hybridity in Contemporary Indian deletePoetry Five. Hybridity and Dislocation: Poets of the South Asian deleteDiaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia Six. Diaspora, Dislocation and South Asian Poetry in Canada Seven. Strangers in a Strange Land: South Asian Immigrant Poets deletein the United States Eight. "But here are the meanings": The Voices of Contemporary deleteSouth Asian American Male Poets Nine. "Other" Histories: South Asian Women Poets in North deleteAmerica and the Caribbean Ten. "Why I'm a poet": Contemporary South Asian Women's deletePoetry in the United States Eleven. Coda Bibliography Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgments Preface One. Locating South Asian Voices: The Transnational Case for deleteSouth Asian Poetry in English Two. The Beginnings of the English-Language Poetry of South deleteAsians: The Colonial Era in the Indian Subcontinent Three. Strangers in Their Own Lands: English-Language Poetry deletein the Indian Subcontinent Since 1947 Four. Transnationalism and Hybridity in Contemporary Indian deletePoetry Five. Hybridity and Dislocation: Poets of the South Asian deleteDiaspora in the United Kingdom and Australia Six. Diaspora, Dislocation and South Asian Poetry in Canada Seven. Strangers in a Strange Land: South Asian Immigrant Poets deletein the United States Eight. "But here are the meanings": The Voices of Contemporary deleteSouth Asian American Male Poets Nine. "Other" Histories: South Asian Women Poets in North deleteAmerica and the Caribbean Ten. "Why I'm a poet": Contemporary South Asian Women's deletePoetry in the United States Eleven. Coda Bibliography Index
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