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- Seamus Heaney in Context
- Seamus Heaney in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Mapping
- II Influences and Traditions
- III Poetics
- IV Publishing
- V Frameworks
- VI Critical Contexts
- Chapter 24 The Feminine
- Chapter 25 Heaney in Between
- Chapter 26 Critical Audiences
- Chapter 27 The Postcolonial
- Chapter 28 The Archipelago
- VII Legacy
- Index
Chapter 27 - The Postcolonial
from VI - Critical Contexts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2021
- Seamus Heaney in Context
- Seamus Heaney in Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- I Mapping
- II Influences and Traditions
- III Poetics
- IV Publishing
- V Frameworks
- VI Critical Contexts
- Chapter 24 The Feminine
- Chapter 25 Heaney in Between
- Chapter 26 Critical Audiences
- Chapter 27 The Postcolonial
- Chapter 28 The Archipelago
- VII Legacy
- Index
Summary
This chapter evaluates the status of Seamus Heaney as a postcolonial poet by arguing for a reading of Heaney’s concurrent investment in matters related to colonial politics – a classic postcolonial concern – alongside the burden of aesthetics such that form emerges as sedimented content, and colonial borders yield to a transnational imagination. While rooted in Ireland and a landscape marked by colonialism, Heaney’s brand of transnational poetics is marked by errancy, a mode of wandering and taking flight that discloses alternative horizons for the postcolonial aesthetic and political imaginary. Along with references to other works, this chapter features a close reading of an unpublished poem, 'Errata for BK'.
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- Seamus Heaney in Context , pp. 295 - 303Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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