Nationalist poets and “barbarian poetry”: Scotland’s Douglas Dunn and Montserrat’s Howard Fergus

TY - JOUR

T1 - Nationalist poets and “barbarian poetry”: Scotland’s Douglas Dunn and Montserrat’s Howard Fergus

AU - Skinner, Jonathan

PY - 2004

Y1 - 2004

N2 - This article compares the poetry of Douglas Dunn of Scotland, and of Howard Fergus of Montserrat. It argues that both poets are “nationalist” and “barbarian” poets promoting cultural and political independence for their homelands by positioning themselves as the marginalised voices of the colonised. It concludes with an examination of whether or not Dunn and Fergus are postcolonial poets.

AB - This article compares the poetry of Douglas Dunn of Scotland, and of Howard Fergus of Montserrat. It argues that both poets are “nationalist” and “barbarian” poets promoting cultural and political independence for their homelands by positioning themselves as the marginalised voices of the colonised. It concludes with an examination of whether or not Dunn and Fergus are postcolonial poets.

UR - http://fmls.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/4/377.abstract

M3 - Article

SN - 0015-8518

VL - XL

SP - 377

EP - 388

JO - FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

JF - FORUM FOR MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES

IS - 4

ER -