ENL 5276 Spring 2024 - Stilling

This course examines how British poetry has been remade in the decades since WWII by immigration, reverse colonization, the dissolution of the British Empire, and the increasingly global dimensions of the world literary market. With attention to the changing nature of British cultural institutions and efforts at cultural decolonization, this course considers British poetry in a transnational context. We will read in particular Black British and migrant poets with roots in the Caribbean, Africa, South Asia, and elsewhere, including Linton Kwesi Johnson, Grace Nichols, Louise Bennet, Patience Agbabi, Bernardine Evaristo, Daljit Nagra, and Lemn Sissay, among others.