Postcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that postcolonial poets have also dramatically expanded the atlas of literature in English.
Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. W. B. Yeats: A Postcolonial Poet?3. The Wound of Postcolonial History: Derek Walcott's Omeros4. Metaphor and Postcoloniality: A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry5. Irony and Postcoloniality: Louise Bennett's Anancy Poetics6. The Poet as "Native Anthropologist": Ethnography and Antiethnography in Okot p'Bitek's SongsCoda: On HybridityNotesIndex
