New World Modernisms
Author | : Charles W. Pollard |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004 |
ISBN-10 | : 081392278X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780813922782 |
Rating | : 4/5 (8X Downloads) |
Download or read book New World Modernisms written by Charles W. Pollard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pollard looks to recent Caribbean poetry as a means of reassessing modernism's cosmopolitanism; in particular, his book redefines the cosmopolitan influence of T.S. Eliot's modernism by examining how his ideas have been transformed by the two leading Anglophone Caribbean poets, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite.