Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-151) and index.
Contents:
Chapter One: Shards of an ancient pastoral: The postcolonial sublime; the eighteenth century romantic landscape; The possibility of the postcolonial romantic -- Chapter Two: Trenchtown rock: Jamaica Kincaid's unreal beauty; The romantic education of Jamaica Kincaid; Early mode of the "empty" colonial landscape; Emergent ideas fo landscape; Landscape as colonial artifact, landscape as place -- Chapter Three: Once out of nature: Garrett Hongo's postcolonial poetic; The conservative postmodern; Poetry of the unchronicled; A book of origins -- Chapter Four: His company of visionaries: Derek Walcott and the education of the postcolonial; The problem of inheritance; The apprentice mimic -- Chapter Five: that's all them bastards have left us, words: The melancholy of the postcolonial romantic; Trauma and the postcolonial romantic; "The Harbour": a first case; Postcolonial romantic; The returning prodigal.
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