TY - GEN T1 - Postcolonial poetics : genre and form T2 - Francophone postcolonial studies ; A2 - Crowley, Patrick, 1964- A2 - Hiddleston, Jane LA - English PP - Liverpool PB - Liverpool University Press YR - 2011 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn767502683 AB - 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. OP - 282 CN - PR605 SN - 9781846317453 SN - 1846317452 SN - 9781846317187 SN - 1846317185 KW - French poetry : French-speaking countries : History and criticism. KW - French poetry : Colonies : France : History and criticism. KW - French poetry : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Poetics. KW - Literary form. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Literature : Philosophy. KW - Poésie française : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Poétique. KW - Genres littéraires. KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : French. KW - Literature : Philosophy KW - French poetry KW - Literary form KW - Poetics KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - France KW - French-speaking countries KW - 1900-1999 KW - Electronic books. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. ER -