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Recalling Recitation in the Americas focuses on the unexplored relationship between education history and literary form and establishes the far-reaching effects of poetry memorization and recitation on the development of modern performance poetry in North America.--

Oral interpretation of poetry. --- Performance poetry --- Poetry --- Recitation(Education) --- Social aspects. --- Study and teaching. --- Johnson, E. Pauline, --- Hughes, Langston, --- Bennett, Louise, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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In recent decades, much of the most vital literature written in English has come from the former colonies of Great Britain. But while post-colonial novelists such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul have been widely celebrated, the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. In "The Hybrid Muse", Jahan Ramazani argues that postcolonial poets have also dramatically expanded the atlas of literature in English, infusing modern and contemporary poetry with indigenous metaphors, rhythms and creoles. A rich and vibrant poetry, he contends, has issued from the hybridization of the English muse with the long resident muses of Africa, India and the Caribbean. Starting with the complex case of Ireland, Ramazani closely analyzes the work of leading postcolonial poets and explores key questions about the relationship between poetry and postcolonialism. As inheritors of both imperial and native cultures, poets such as W.B. Yeats, Derek Walcott, Louise Bennett, A.K. Ramanujan and Okot p'Bitek invent compelling new forms to ariculate the tensions and ambiguities of their cultural in-betweeness. They forge hybrid figures, vocabularies and genres that embody the postcolonial condition. Engaging an array of critical topics, from the aesthetics of irony and metaphor to the politics of nationalism and anthropology, Ramazani reconceptualizes issues central to our understanding of both postcolonial literatures and 20th-century poetry. The first book of its kind, "The Hybrid Muse" should help internationalize the study of poetry, and in turn, strengthen the place of poetry in postcolonial studies.

Poetry --- English literature --- British Commonwealth --- Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) --- Walcott, Derek (1930-....) --- Ramanujan, Attippat Krishnaswami (1929-1993) --- Bennett, Louise (1919-....) --- p'Bitek, Okot (1931-1982) --- Poésie anglophone --- Littérature postcoloniale --- Décolonisation --- Critique et interprétation --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Dans la littérature

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Sociology of literature --- British Commonwealth --- Decolonization in literature --- Colonies in literature --- Blacks in literature --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Noirs dans la littérature --- Literature and society --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Colonies dans la littérature --- Noirs dans la littérature --- Commonwealth literature (English) --- Postcolonialism in literature --- 820 <100> --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Negroes in literature --- History and criticism --- History --- Social aspects --- English literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Decolonization in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Littérature du Commonwealth (anglaise) --- Décolonisation dans la littérature --- Histoire et critique --- Black people in literature. --- Commonwealth literature (English) - History and criticism. --- Literature and society - Commonwealth countries - History - 20th century. --- POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- LITERATURE AND SOCIETY --- DECOLONIZATION IN LITERATURE --- COLONIES IN LITERATURE --- BLACKS IN LITERATURE --- SOUTH AFRICAN LITERATURE --- BENNETT (LOUISE) --- BHABHA (HOMI) --- BERRY (JAMES) --- DABYDEEN (DAVID) --- GWALA (MAFIKA) --- JOHNSON (LINTON KWESI) --- MTSHALI (OSWALD) --- NARAYAN (R. K.) --- NICHOLS (GRACE) --- PLAATJE (SOLOMON) --- RAO (RAJA) --- SAHGAL (NAYANTARA) --- ACHEBE (CHINUA), 1930 --- -BRATHWAITE (EDWARD KAMAU), 1930 --- -COETZEE (JOHN MAXWELL), 1940 --- -SAID (EDWARD W.), 1935-2003 --- ONDAATJE (MICHAEL), 1943 --- -RUSHDIE (SALMAN), 1947 --- -GORDIMER (NADINE), 1923 --- -NAIPAUL (VIDIADHAR SURAJPRASAD), 1932 --- -NGUGI WA THIONG'O, 1938 --- -SPIVAK (GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY), 1942 --- -WALCOTT (DEREK), 1930 --- -HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- COMMONWEALTH COUNTRIES --- HISTORY --- 20th CENTURY --- -POST-COLONIAL LITERATURE (ENGLISH) --- HISTORY AND CRITICISM --- -Sociology of literature