How Long to Read Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination

How Long Does it Take to Read Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 49 minutes to read Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination by Martin McKinsey

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination: Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott follows the careers of three major poets of the European and North American periphery as they engage one of the master tropes of Western civilization. As colonial subjects, they inherited an Anglicized version of Hellenism whose borders might easily have excluded them as civilizational "others." The book describes the diverse strategies they used--from Bloomian kenosis to Afro-Caribbean "signifyin(g)"--to make Hellenism their own. Their use of Greek material, the book argues, is closely tied to their need as members of colonial minorities--Irish Protestant, Greek-Egyptian, and "part-white and Methodist"--to define themselves against mainstream metropolitan culture on the one hand, and nationalist constructions of the post-colonial homeland on the other. Their Hellenisms participate in the dialectic of local and global, as the poets at once indigenize the Universal Greek, and re-deploy him to hybridize national culture. The result is a triangulated dynamic that challenges established notions of the postcolonial. Among works discussed are Tennyson's "Ulysses," Yeats's "No Second Troy," C.P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians," and Walcott's Omeros. Martin McKinsey is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Hampshire.

How long is Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination?

Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination by Martin McKinsey is 225 pages long, and a total of 57,375 words.

This makes it 76% the length of the average book. It also has 70% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 13 minutes to read Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination aloud.

What Reading Level is Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination?

Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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