Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, and Other Poems
Author: Grace Nichols
Publisher: Virago Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 57
ISBN-13: 9781853810763
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Talk Yuh Talk
Author: Kwame Senu Neville Dawes
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780813919461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the past 30 years, most Caribbean poetry written in English has come to the US in the lyrics of reggae music, but that is only one aspect of a tradition characterized by continuing tension within a diverse heritage. Interviews in this collection reflect a range of Caribbean voices from several generations, from those poets influenced by a dynamic interplay between the popular culture of reggae music and yard theater to those whose work is closer to classical forms of literature and oral narrative. Dawes teaches English at the University of South Carolina. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Contemporary British Poetry
Author: James Acheson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1996-09-12
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0791494217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDevoted to close readings of poets and their contexts from various postmodern perspectives, this book offers a wide-ranging look at the work of feminists and "post feminist" poets, working class poets, and poets of diverse cultural backgrounds, as well as provocative re-readings of such well-established and influential figures as Donald Davie, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Craig Raine. Contributors include many respected theorists and critics, such as Antony Easthope, C.L. Innes, John Matthias, Edward Larrissy, Linda Anderson, Eric Homberger, Alastair Niven, R.K. Meiners, and Cairns Craig, in addition to new writers working from new theoretical perspectives. Their approaches range from cultural theory to poststructuralism; each essayist addresses a general audience while engaging in debates of interest to postgraduates and specialists in the fields of twentieth-century poetry and cultural studies. The book's strength lies in its diversity at every level.
Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing
Author: Jane Eldridge Miller
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-23
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1136214305
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnique in its breadth of coverage, Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing is a comprehensive, authoritative and enjoyable guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century. Over the course of 1000 entries by over 150 international contributors, a picture emerges of the incredible range of women's writing in our time, from Toni Morrison to Fleur Adcock- all are here. This book includes the established and well-loved but also opens up new worlds of modern literature which may be unfamiliar but are never less than fascinating.
Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English
Author: Eugene Benson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-11-30
Total Pages: 1950
ISBN-13: 1134468482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Contemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry
Author: Denise deCaires Narain
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-08-29
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1134601824
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContemporary Caribbean Women's Poetry provides detailed readings of individual poems by women poets whose work has not yet received the sustained critical attention it deserves. These readings are contextualized both within Caribbean cultural debates and postcolonial and feminist critical discourses in a lively and engaged way; revisiting nationalist debates as well as topical issues about the performance of gendered and raced identities within poetic discourse. Newly available in paperback, this book is groundbreaking reading for all those interested in postcolonialism, Gender Studies, Caribbean Studies and contemporary poetry.
Moving Beyond Boundaries (Vol. 2)
Author: Carole Boyce-Davies
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1995-04
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0814712398
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Studying English Literature in Context
Author: Paul Poplawski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-10-13
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 1108479286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom early medieval times to the present, this diverse collection of thirty-one essays sets literary texts in their historical contexts.
African Diasporic Women's Narratives
Author: Simone A. James Alexander
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 0813048877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfrican Literature Association Book of the Year Award in Scholarship – Honorable Mention Using feminist and womanist theory, Simone Alexander takes as her main point of analysis literary works that focus on the black female body as the physical and metaphorical site of migration. She shows that over time black women have used their bodily presence to complicate and challenge a migratory process often forced upon them by men or patriarchal society. Through in-depth study of selective texts by Audre Lorde, Edwidge Danticat, Maryse Condé, and Grace Nichols, Alexander challenges the stereotypes ascribed to black female sexuality, subverting its assumed definition as diseased, passive, or docile. She also addresses issues of embodiment as she analyses how women’s bodies are read and seen; how bodies “perform” and are performed upon; how they challenge and disrupt normative standards. A multifaceted contribution to studies of gender, race, sexuality and disability issues, African Diasporic Women’s Narratives engages with a range of issues as it grapples with the complex interconnectedness of geography, citizenship, and nationalism.
Other
Author: Richard Caddel
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780819522580
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most significant US anthology of innovative poetries from the UK and Ireland in over 25 years. When most Americans think of contemporary British poetry, they think of such mainstream poets as Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, and Geoffrey Hill. Yet there is a vibrant, diverse alternative poetry movement in the UK, inspired in large measure by the work of such significant mentors as Basil Bunting and J. H. Prynne. There is growing interest in this work in the United States - as alternative American poetries express increasingly transnational concerns - and yet almost none of it is available here. OTHER is a highly focused anthology bringing together several important strands of English-language poetry that are not otherwise so readily accessible. It includes work by 55 poets, among them Cris Cheek, Brian Coffey, Fred d'Aguiar, Allen Fisher, Ulli Freer, Randolph Healy, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Wendy Mulford, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley, Catherine Walsh; a critical introduction addressing such topics as the interaction of British and American poetic traditions; and brief biographical and bibliographical notes on each poet.
