Towards Post-Blackness A Critical Study of Rita Dove's Poetry

Towards Post-Blackness is a valuable book that reinterprets the sensibility of a significant living Black American poet, Rita Dove, from a universal point of view. Any good poet must speak to readers everywhere; they cannot be pigeonholed to a particular place, race or identity as they transcend all identity barriers to speak to the human race. Lekha Roy argues this point in her book by approaching Dove's poetry from the Hegelian view of the relationship between self and other. I recommend the book to scholars of American poetry, world literature and minority literature in South Asia and beyond. -Prof. Mohammad A. Quayum, Professor, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia Author of Saul Bellow and American Transcendentalism (Twentieth Century American-Jewish Writers)