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A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial commonwealth /
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; C...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York, NY :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Colección: | Cross/cultures ;
117. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.