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By Katharine Burkitt

concentrating on works by means of Derek Walcott, Les Murray, Anne Carson, and Bernardine Evaristo, Katharine Burkitt investigates the connection among literary shape and textual politics in postcolonial narrative poems and verse-novels. Burkitt argues that those works disrupt and undermine the traditions of specific varieties and genres, and so much particularly the expectancies connected to the prose novel, poetry, and epic. This subversion of shape, Burkitt argues, is a crucial element of the texts' postcoloniality as they find themselves significantly with regards to literary conference, and they're all fascinated about concerns of social, racial, and nationwide identities in a global the place those different types are inherently complex. furthermore, the attention of epic culture in those texts unites them as 'post-epics', in that as they reuse the myths and motifs of various epics, they query the prestige of the shape, display it to be inherently malleable, and regenerate its tales for the modern international. As she examines the ways that postcolonial texts rewrite the traditions of classical epics for the 20 th and twenty-first centuries, Burkitt ties shut textual research to a serious intervention within the politics of form.

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