1. Postcolonial poetics—a score for reading
2. Questions of postcolonial poetics
3. Revisiting Resistance literature—writing in juxtaposition
4. Postcolonial writing, terror, and continuity: Okri, D’Aguiar, NourbeSe Philip, Shire
5. Repetitive poetics—when crisis defines a nation’s writing. Contemporary South African novels
6. Poetics and persistence: Chinua Achebe’s shaping influence
7. Concepts of exchange—poetics in postcolonial, world, and world-system literatures
8. The transformative force of the postcolonial line: protest poetry and the global short story.