1st Edition
Literary Form as Postcolonial Critique Epic Proportions
By Katharine Burkitt
Copyright 2012
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Focusing on works by Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the relationship between literary form and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that these works disrupt and undermine the traditions of particular forms and genres, and most notably the expectations attached to the prose novel, poetry,... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Narrative Histories and Postcolonial Perspectives in Les Murray’s Fredy Neptune; Chapter 2 Post-epic National identities in Bernardine Evaristo’s The Emperor’s Babe; Chapter 3 Hero versus Monster; afterword Post-Epics;
Biography
Katharine Burkitt is a Postdoctoral Researcher and teacher at the University of Liège, Belgium. Her research interests are postcolonial literature and literary form.
A Yankee Book Peddler Literary Essentials Title for 2013 'This book in particular challenges the structure of the genre of the prose novel, poetry and epics, and as a result disrupts the expectations that readers may have from these genres. ... Burkitt has presented to her readers various ways in which the political, sexual and gendered spaces represented in these works can be extrapolated.' Rocky Mountain Review
