This Companion is the first to explore postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual and gender approaches.

This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the

Offers a lucid introduction to postcolonial studies, one of the most important strands in recent literary theory and cultural studies.

Every great civilisation from the Bronze Age to the present day has produced epic poems. Epic poetry has always had a profound influence on other literary genre

The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series (general editor: Elleke Boehmer) offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and