Anglophone Verse Novels as Gutter Texts

List of figures
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
1. Introduction: In the gutter ...
1.1 Gutter texts and the politics of form
1.2 Verse novels as gutter texts
1.3 Gappiness and incompleteness
1.4 Connexionism and minor cosmopolitanisms
1.5 Gappy planet and incomplete nation: Michael Cawood Green's Sinking
2. Volcanic verses: The planet as verb
2.1 Sibylline cures: Derek Walcott's Omeros
2.2 'Links between geology and character': Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red
2.3 The space that connects: Albert Wendt's The Adventures of Vela
2.4 The planet as praxis: W.S. Merwin's The Folding Cliffs
3. In/verse Britain: The poetics of the post-nation
3.1 A million epiphanies now: Kae Tempest's Let Them Eat Chaos
3.2 'But I dreamt of creating mosaics': Bernardine Evaristo's The Emperor's Babe
3.3 Detoxing England: Patience Agbabi's Telling Tales
3.4 Untelling tales: Anagrammatic Blackness in M. NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
4. Epilogue: ... looking at the stars
Bibliography
Index

Este título pertence ao(s) assunto(s) indicados(s). Para ver outros títulos clique no assunto desejado.

• Estudos literários: literatura pós-colonial
• Teorias literárias
• Literatura: história e crítica
• Estudos literários: poesia e poetas
• Estudos literários: ficção, romancistas e escritores de prosa

comp lit; ecocriticism; long-form poetry; world lit; poco; postcolonial; volcano; environment; postnational; imagined communities