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Title Postcolonial poetics : genre and form / edited by Patrick Crowley and Jane Hiddleston.

Publication Info. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 282 pages).
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Series Francophone Postcolonial Studies. New series ; v. 2
Francophone postcolonial studies ; 2.
Summary Postcolonial texts engage with the political world in a variety of ways, directly or indirectly, and it is in their specific uses of genre and form that they alter or develop our understanding of the particular contexts with which they grapple. This collection of essays on postcolonial poetics explores different kinds of literary writing, its blurring with other discourses and its manipulation of genre and form, in order to achieve a better understanding of its transformatory power. This study of the poetics of genre also sheds light on how different kinds of texts offer specific, distinct mod.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject French poetry -- French-speaking countries -- History and criticism.
French poetry.
French-speaking countries.
French poetry -- France -- Colonies -- History and criticism.
France.
Colonies.
French poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Poetics.
Poetics.
Literary form.
Literary form.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Crowley, Patrick, 1964-
Hiddleston, Jane.
Other Form: Print version: Crowley, Patrick. Postcolonial Poetics : Genre and Form. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, ©2011 9781846317453
ISBN 9781846317187 electronic book
1846317185 electronic book