目次

1. Postcolonial poetics—a score for reading.- 2. Questions of postcolonial poetics.- 3. Revisiting Resistance literature—writing in juxtaposition.- 4. Postcolonial writing, terror, and continuity: Okri, D’Aguiar, NourbeSe Philip, Shire.- 5. Repetitive poetics—when crisis defines a nation’s writing. Contemporary South African novels.- 6. Poetics and persistence: Chinua Achebe’s shaping influence.- 7. Concepts of exchange—poetics in postcolonial, world, and world-system literatures.- 8. The transformative force of the postcolonial line: protest poetry and the global short story.