Anglophone verse novels as gutter texts : postcolonial literature and the politics of gaps /: postcolonial literature and the politics of gaps. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Dirk Wiemann.
• Authors: Wiemann, Dirk
• Contents: List of figuresAcknowledgementsList of abbreviations1. Introduction: In the gutter ...1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green's Sinking2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott's Omeros2.2 'Links between geology and character': Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red 2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin's The Folding Cliffs3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos3.2 'But I dreamt of creating mosaics': Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in m. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!4. Epilogue: … looking at the stars BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (240 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 809.13; Novels in verse -- History and criticism; Novels in verse -- Technique
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501399510; 9781501399527
• Related ISBNs: 9781501399503
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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