Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature / Daniel Massa -- The Commitment Against Exclusion / Peter O. Stummer -- The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications / Monica Bungaro -- Crossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life / Jogamaya Bayer -- Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black / Sabrina Brancato -- Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man / Gen’ichiro Itakura -- The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n Breadfruit / Lourdes López–Ropero -- “The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South Africa / Natasha Distiller -- Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s World / Ben Lebdai -- Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact / Susanne Reichl -- The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning / Katrin Berndt -- Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes / Evelyne Hanquart–Turner -- Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance / Marie Herbillon -- In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s Essays / Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler -- “Dominion From Sea to Sea”: Christianity, Imperialism and the Trope of Conversion / Dorothy Lane -- Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / Karen King–Aribisala -- “You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North / Jamie S. Scott -- Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia / Robert Cribb -- Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations?: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif / Amin Malak -- A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back?: Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the East / Jacqueline Jondot -- The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement / Ursula Kluwick -- ‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin / Andrea Strolz -- Rewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering Babylon / Cynthia Vanden Driesen -- The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean / Concepción Mengíbar Rico -- Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh / Tuomas Huttunen -- Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others / Clare Thake Vassallo -- Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles?: Patterns of Interaction between Married Couples in Malta / Lydia Sciriha -- Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue / Judith Lütge Coullie -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

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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.