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The cross-cultural legacy : critical and creative writings in memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek / Gordon Collier [and 3 others].
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cross/cultures ; 0924-1426 193.
- Cross/cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth literature (English).
- Intellectual life.
- Commonwealth countries--Intellectual life.
- Commonwealth countries.
- Commonwealth countries--In literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Culture.
- Ethnology.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- 428 pages : illustrations (partly color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2017].
- Summary:
- This volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes-Jelinek (1929-2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liége, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, rise collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes-Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers created include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray Bail, Patrick White, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dan Jacobson, Joseph Conrad, and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Caryl Phillips revisits his earlier reflections on the 'European tribe'. There are wide-ranging essays analysing consanguineous authors, on such topics as Caribbean treatments of the Jewish Diaspora, Swiss-Caribbean authors, the contemporary Australian short story and the Asian connection, and 'habitation' in Australian fiction, as well as a searching examination of the socio-political fallout from the scandal of Australia's 'Stolen Generations'. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes-Jelinek / Jeanne Delbaere Delbaere, Jeanne 1
- Because It Was She / Jeanne Delbaere Delbaere, Jeanne 3
- The Invention of Legacy: Opening Ceremony / Geoffrey V. Davis Davis, Geoffrey V. 13
- Text Read at the Launch of The Labyrinth of Universality / Wilson Harris Harris, Wilson 17
- Cumberland Lodge: Honouring Hena in the Right Setting / Alastair Niven Niven, Alastair 19
- A Kaddish for Hena / Peter H. Marsden Marsden, Peter H. 25
- The Photo / Alecia McKenzie McKenzie, Alecia 33
- The Wind Under My Lips / Stephanos Stephanides Stephanides, Stephanos 35
- The Empathy of Genius: Hena Maes-Jelinek and Wilson Harris / Louis James James, Louis 43
- Place and Time: The Two Anchors / T.J. Cribb Cribb, T.J. 49
- The Legacy of the Imagination: Reading Wilson Harris after Hena Maes-Jelinek / Jean-Pierre Durix Durix, Jean-Pierre 67
- Intersections on the 'Map of Art': Metaphor in Ben Okri's Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris's The Mask of the Beggar / Daria Tunca Tunca, Daria 81
- A Tribute to Hena / Lawrence Scott Scott, Lawrence 97
- On a Voyage to Demerara, 1859 / Lawrence Scott Scott, Lawrence 98
- The Shylock In Me / Karen King-Aribisala King-Aribisala, Karen 113
- Revisiting The European Tribe / Caryl Phillips Phillips, Caryl 121
- How Anancy Feeds His Family (and Himself) / Fred D'Aguiar D'Aguiar, Fred 131
- Telling Your Story: Memory and Trauma in Leone Ross's Orange Laughter / Petra Tournay-Theoootou Tournay-Theoootou, Petra 141
- On the 'Erasure of Specificities' in Studies of the African Diaspora / Christine Levecq Levecq, Christine 153
- Swiss-Caribbean Authors: A Legacy of Swiss Involvement in the Colonial System / Klaus Stuckert Stuckert, Klaus 163
- On the Kamau Trail: Tracking Poems from Page to Stage / Christine Pagnoulle Pagnoulle, Christine 175
- Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid's Mr. Potter / Carine Mardorossian Mardorossian, Carine 187
- Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness / Bénédicte Ledent Ledent, Bénédicte 201
- Remarkable Developments in the Australian Short Story: John Murray and Nam Le / Peter O. Stummer Stummer, Peter O. 219
- Mourning and Metafiction in Peter Carey's Chemistry of Tears / Marc Delrez Delrez, Marc 233
- Prologue to an Essay / Marie Herbillon Herbillon, Marie 245
- Murray Bail's Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy-Tale? / Marie Herbillon Herbillon, Marie 247
- Metonyms of Mood and Condition: The Semiosis of Habitation in Selected Australian Fiction Since Patrick White / Gordon Collier Collier, Gordon 255
- (Not) Saying Sorry: Australian Responses to the Howard Government's Refusal to Apologize to the Stolen Generations / Janet Wilson Wilson, Janet 295
- Cannibalism and 'Unspeakable Rites': Patrick White's A Fringe of Leaves and Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness / Cynthia Vanden Driesen Driesen, Cynthia Vanden 313
- The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer's Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum's Diaries and Letters / Britta Olinder Olinder, Britta 327
- "The Territory of My Imagination": Rediscovering Dan Jacobson's South Africa / Geoffrev V. Davis Davis, Geoffrev V. 347
- The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson's African Journey (1945) / Annalisa Oboe Oboe, Annalisa 377
- Letters to the End of Grief / Dominique Hecq Hecq, Dominique 389.
- Notes:
- Papers presented at a conference held March 24-26, 2010 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, England.
- Memorial volume.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- online version:
- ISBN:
- 9789004336421
- 9004336427
- OCLC:
- 966538031
- Publisher Number:
- 9789004336421
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