Rajeev Patke was born in Pune, India. He read English literature for a BA and an MA from Pune and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at the University of Pune, and has taught at the National University of Singapore since 1988. He has authored a book on the long poems of Wallace Stevens (Cambridge, 1985), co-edited several books on literature and culture, and his ongoing research interests include the writings of Walter Benjamin, and the relation between poetry and painting.

• PART 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poetry and Postcoloniality ; 2. Back to the Future ; PART 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL TRADITIONS ; 3. Asia ; 4. The Caribbean ; 5. Black Africa ; 6. The Settler Countries ; PART 3: CASE STUDIES: VOICE AND TECHNIQUE ; 7. Minoritarian Sensibilities ; 8. Techniques of Self-representation ; 9. Recurrent Motifs: Voyage and Translation ; 10. After the 'Post-'

One of the main strengths of the book is the diversity of voices it makes available through quotation, allusion and cross-reference, which in itself is a vital contribution to existing representations of the sheer wealth of postcolonial poetry in English.

Rajeev Patke was born in Pune, India. He read English literature for a BA and an MA from Pune and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at the University of Pune, and has taught at the National University of Singapore since 1988. He has authored a book on the long poems of Wallace Stevens (Cambridge, 1985), co-edited several books on literature and culture, and his ongoing research interests include the writings of Walter Benjamin, and the relation between poetry and painting.

• PART 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poetry and Postcoloniality ; 2. Back to the Future ; PART 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL TRADITIONS ; 3. Asia ; 4. The Caribbean ; 5. Black Africa ; 6. The Settler Countries ; PART 3: CASE STUDIES: VOICE AND TECHNIQUE ; 7. Minoritarian Sensibilities ; 8. Techniques of Self-representation ; 9. Recurrent Motifs: Voyage and Translation ; 10. After the 'Post-'

One of the main strengths of the book is the diversity of voices it makes available through quotation, allusion and cross-reference, which in itself is a vital contribution to existing representations of the sheer wealth of postcolonial poetry in English.

Rajeev Patke was born in Pune, India. He read English literature for a BA and an MA from Pune and an M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has taught at the University of Pune, and has taught at the National University of Singapore since 1988. He has authored a book on the long poems of Wallace Stevens (Cambridge, 1985), co-edited several books on literature and culture, and his ongoing research interests include the writings of Walter Benjamin, and the relation between poetry and painting.

• PART 1: INTRODUCTION ; 1. Poetry and Postcoloniality ; 2. Back to the Future ; PART 2: THE DEVELOPMENT OF LOCAL TRADITIONS ; 3. Asia ; 4. The Caribbean ; 5. Black Africa ; 6. The Settler Countries ; PART 3: CASE STUDIES: VOICE AND TECHNIQUE ; 7. Minoritarian Sensibilities ; 8. Techniques of Self-representation ; 9. Recurrent Motifs: Voyage and Translation ; 10. After the 'Post-'

One of the main strengths of the book is the diversity of voices it makes available through quotation, allusion and cross-reference, which in itself is a vital contribution to existing representations of the sheer wealth of postcolonial poetry in English.