A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial commonwealth /
A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial commonwealth /
edited by Stella Borg Barthet.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 412 pages)
- Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 117 .
- Cross/Cultures 117. Literature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004357945. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature / The Commitment Against Exclusion / The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications / Crossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life / Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black / Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man / The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n Breadfruit / “The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South Africa / Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s World / Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact / The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning / Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes / Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance / In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s Essays / “Dominion From Sea to Sea”: Christianity, Imperialism and the Trope of Conversion / Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / “You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North / Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia / Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations?: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif / A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back?: Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the East / The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement / ‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin / Rewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering Babylon / The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean / Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh / Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others / Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles?: Patterns of Interaction between Married Couples in Malta / Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue / Notes on Contributors -- Index. Daniel Massa -- Peter O. Stummer -- Monica Bungaro -- Jogamaya Bayer -- Sabrina Brancato -- Gen’ichiro Itakura -- Lourdes López–Ropero -- Natasha Distiller -- Ben Lebdai -- Susanne Reichl -- Katrin Berndt -- Evelyne Hanquart–Turner -- Marie Herbillon -- Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler -- Dorothy Lane -- Karen King–Aribisala -- Jamie S. Scott -- Robert Cribb -- Amin Malak -- Jacqueline Jondot -- Ursula Kluwick -- Andrea Strolz -- Cynthia Vanden Driesen -- Concepción Mengíbar Rico -- Tuomas Huttunen -- Clare Thake Vassallo -- Lydia Sciriha -- Judith Lütge Coullie --
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The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.
9789042027657
10.1163/9789042027657 DOI
2010292925
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.
Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries--Congresses.
Postcolonialism in literature--Congresses.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Commonwealth literature (English)
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism.
Commonwealth countries.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9080.A515 / S43 2009
820.9/9171241
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminary Material -- The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature / The Commitment Against Exclusion / The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications / Crossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life / Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black / Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man / The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n Breadfruit / “The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South Africa / Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s World / Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact / The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning / Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes / Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance / In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s Essays / “Dominion From Sea to Sea”: Christianity, Imperialism and the Trope of Conversion / Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / “You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North / Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia / Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations?: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif / A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back?: Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the East / The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement / ‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin / Rewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering Babylon / The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean / Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh / Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others / Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles?: Patterns of Interaction between Married Couples in Malta / Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue / Notes on Contributors -- Index. Daniel Massa -- Peter O. Stummer -- Monica Bungaro -- Jogamaya Bayer -- Sabrina Brancato -- Gen’ichiro Itakura -- Lourdes López–Ropero -- Natasha Distiller -- Ben Lebdai -- Susanne Reichl -- Katrin Berndt -- Evelyne Hanquart–Turner -- Marie Herbillon -- Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler -- Dorothy Lane -- Karen King–Aribisala -- Jamie S. Scott -- Robert Cribb -- Amin Malak -- Jacqueline Jondot -- Ursula Kluwick -- Andrea Strolz -- Cynthia Vanden Driesen -- Concepción Mengíbar Rico -- Tuomas Huttunen -- Clare Thake Vassallo -- Lydia Sciriha -- Judith Lütge Coullie --
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.
9789042027657
10.1163/9789042027657 DOI
2010292925
Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.
Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.
Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries--Congresses.
Postcolonialism in literature--Congresses.
Commonwealth fiction (English)
Commonwealth literature (English)
Postcolonialism in literature.
Postcolonialism.
Commonwealth countries.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
PR9080.A515 / S43 2009
820.9/9171241