1. Introduction -- 2. W. B. Yeats: A Postcolonial Poet? -- 3. The Wound of Postcolonial History: Derek Walcott's Omeros -- 4. Metaphor and Postcoloniality: A. K. Ramanujan's Poetry -- 5. Irony and Postcoloniality: Louise Bennett's Anancy Poetics -- 6. The Poet as "Native Anthropologist": Ethnography and Antiethnography in Okot p'Bitek's Songs -- Coda: On Hybridity