Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination
Martin McKinse
Barcode 9781611474824
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Release Date: 01/07/2010
Genre: Literary Criticism
Sub-Genre: Poetry & Drama
Label: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Language: English
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
This book follows the careers of three major poets of the European and North American periphery as they engage one of the master tropes of Western civilization. As colonial subjects, they inherited an Anglicized version of Hellenism whose borders might easily have excluded them as civilizational 'others.' The book describes the diverse strategies they used — from Bloomian kenosis to Afro-Caribbean 'signifyin(g)' — to make Hellenism their own.