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024 7 _a10.1163/9789042027657
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245 0 2 _aA sea for encounters :
_bessays towards a postcolonial commonwealth /
_cedited by Stella Borg Barthet.
264 1 _aAmsterdam ;
_aNew York :
_bRodopi,
_c2009.
300 _a1 online resource (xiv, 412 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ;
_v117
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material --
_tThe Relevance of Commonwealth Literature /
_rDaniel Massa --
_tThe Commitment Against Exclusion /
_rPeter O. Stummer --
_tThe Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications /
_rMonica Bungaro --
_tCrossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life /
_rJogamaya Bayer --
_tTranscultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black /
_rSabrina Brancato --
_tJewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man /
_rGen’ichiro Itakura --
_tThe Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n Breadfruit /
_rLourdes López–Ropero --
_t“The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South Africa /
_rNatasha Distiller --
_tNadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s World /
_rBen Lebdai --
_tCognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact /
_rSusanne Reichl --
_tThe Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning /
_rKatrin Berndt --
_tAmit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes /
_rEvelyne Hanquart–Turner --
_tSpatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance /
_rMarie Herbillon --
_tIn the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s Essays /
_rBrigitte Scheer–Schaezler --
_t“Dominion From Sea to Sea”: Christianity, Imperialism and the Trope of Conversion /
_rDorothy Lane --
_tSharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart /
_rKaren King–Aribisala --
_t“You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North /
_rJamie S. Scott --
_tNature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia /
_rRobert Cribb --
_tColonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations?: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif /
_rAmin Malak --
_tA British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back?: Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the East /
_rJacqueline Jondot --
_tThe Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement /
_rUrsula Kluwick --
_t‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin /
_rAndrea Strolz --
_tRewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering Babylon /
_rCynthia Vanden Driesen --
_tThe Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean /
_rConcepción Mengíbar Rico --
_tEthics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh /
_rTuomas Huttunen --
_tIdentity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others /
_rClare Thake Vassallo --
_tDifferent Genders, Different Conversation Styles?: Patterns of Interaction between Married Couples in Malta /
_rLydia Sciriha --
_tTranslating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue /
_rJudith Lütge Coullie --
_tNotes on Contributors --
_tIndex.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aCommonwealth literature (English)
_xHistory and criticism
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aCommonwealth fiction (English)
_xHistory and criticism
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aPostcolonialism
_zCommonwealth countries
_vCongresses.
650 0 _aPostcolonialism in literature
_vCongresses.
650 7 _aCommonwealth fiction (English)
_2fast
650 7 _aCommonwealth literature (English)
_2fast
650 7 _aPostcolonialism in literature.
_2fast
650 7 _aPostcolonialism.
_2fast
651 7 _aCommonwealth countries.
_2fast
655 7 _aConference papers and proceedings.
_2fast
655 7 _aCriticism, interpretation, etc.
_2fast
700 1 _aBorg Barthet, Stella.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tA Sea for Encounters: Essays Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth
_dLeiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2009,
_z9789042027640
830 0 _aCross/Cultures
_v117.
830 0 _aLiterature and Cultural Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004357945.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042027657
999 _c12476
_d12476