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Shared waters : soundings in postcolonial literatures /

The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Mi.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
Otros Autores: Borg Barthet, Stella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009.
Colección:Cross/cultures ; 118.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Projecting postcolonialism
  • Exchanging, sharing our places / Hoda Barakat: ; translated by Carmen Depasquale
  • Exclusion and the intellectuals : some thoughts on unequal academic exchange between Africa and the West / Brian Crow
  • What lies ahead : consolidation and diversity in postcolonial studies / Jesús Varela Zapata
  • Beyond revolution : re-writing violence and the future of postcolonial studies / Daphne Grace
  • 2. War and remembrance
  • Territorial terrors : colonial spaces and postcolonial revisions : some basic concepts / Gerhard Stilz
  • In the enemy's camp : women representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo
  • Shared place and maimed bodies : flesh of the past, soul of the future (or vice-versa) in Once were warriors / Chantal Kwast-Greff
  • Historical trauma, lieu de mémoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand / Bärbel Czennia
  • 3. Writing women
  • Becoming a writer in Morocco / Leila Abouzeid
  • Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah / Kifah Hanna
  • Going through twentieth-century Malta in the company of Francis Ebejer's heroines / Bernadette Falzon
  • Aesthetic (dis)continuities in the African gendered space : the example of younger Nigerian women's writing / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju
  • Smells, skins, and spices : Indian spice shops as gendered diasporic spaces in the novels of Indian women writers of the diaspora / Christine Vogt-William
  • Generational change : women and writing in the novels of Thea Astley / Marueen Lynch Pèrcopo
  • 4. Islands and the sea
  • Poems from Malta / Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Maria Grech Ganado, Immanuel Mifsud, Norbert Bugeja
  • Currents and swells in Maltese identity : representations of community in Maltese poetry in English since independence / Stella Borg Barthet
  • Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Kevin Stephen Magri
  • The sea and the erosion of cultural identity in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef / Melanie A. Murray
  • The otherless other, or The anonymity of water : unmapping Ondaatje's "Sand sea" self in Minghella's The English patient / Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus
  • The sea and the changing nature of cultural identity / Isabel Moutinho
  • Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993) / Thomas Bonnici
  • "They are us" : interview with Caryl Phillips / Adrian Grima
  • 5. Shared spaces
  • Sharing media spaces : The Kumars at No. 42 / Hilary P. Dannenberg
  • Writing second-generation migrant identity in Meera Syal's fiction / Devon Campbell-Hall
  • Is "Sharing places" viable in a postmodern world order? : Salman Rushdie's Novel The ground beneath her feet / Amrit Biswas
  • Sharing nation space : representations of India / T. Vijay Kumar
  • Exploring boundaries : the north in western Canadian writing / Janne Korkka
  • Sharing Quebec : Lorena Gale's Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke's Québécité / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
  • Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke.