Embracing the other : addressing xenophobia in the new literatures in English / edited by Dunja M. Mohr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ebooks Corporation.

Mohr, Dunja M., 1968-

Series:

ASNEL papers ; 11.

Cross/cultures ; 95.

ASNEL papers ; 11

Cross/cultures ; 95

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Racism in literature.

Xenophobia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the wake of addressing multiculturalism, transculturalism, racism, and ethnicity, the issue of xenophobia and xenophilia has been somewhat marginalized. The present collection seeks, from a variety of angles, to investigate the relations between Self and Other in the New Literatures in English. How do we register differences and what does an embrace signify for both Self and Other? The contributors deal with a variety of topics, ranging from theoretical reflections on xenophobia, its exploration in terms of intertextuality and New Zealand/Maori historiography, to analyses of migrant and border narratives, and issues of transitionality, authenticity, and racism in Canada and South Africa. Others negotiate identity and alterity in Nigerian, Malaysian, Australian, Indian, Canadian, and Caribbean texts, or reflect on diaspora and orientalism in Australian–Asian and West Indian contexts.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

One Wing / Susan N. Kiguli

Conditions of Cross-Cultural Perceptions: The Other Looks Back / Edwin Thumboo

Benign Xenophobia?: The Testimony of Maori Literature / Judith Dell Panny

‘Daft Questions’: Xenophobia, Teaching, and Social Semiosis in Caribbean-British Fiction: Using Intertextuality and Narratology to Analyze a Text by David Dabydeen / Russell West–Pavlov

How Brave Is Our New World? / Mala Pandurang

Desire and Loathing in Carlos Bulosan’s America Is in the Heart and Bienvenido Santos’s The Man Who (Thought He) Looked Like Robert Taylor / Danilo Victorino Manarpaac

“Worlds of Disenchantment”: Alienation and Change in Adib Khan’s Seasonal Adjustments / Vera Alexander

Writing From the Border, Doing Away With Margins: Carl Muller’s Sri Lankan Burgher Narrative / Dipli Saikia

The Civilized Ape / Virginia Richter

Race and Racism in Contemporary Canadian Fiction: M.G. Vassanji’s No New Land / Martin Genetsch

White Angst in South Africa: The Apocalyptic Visions of John Conyngham / Jochen Petzold

Nadine Gordimer’s Later Novels Or: The Fiction of Otherness / Natividad Martínez Marín

Multicultural Strategies and Alterity: Transgressing the Other in Contemporary Nigerian Women’s Short Stories / Mary E. Modupe Kolawole

The Other Within: The Malaysian Experience / M.M. Raihanah

The Resistance to Being (Em)Braced: Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and David Malouf’s Johnno / Jörg Heinke

The Difficulty of Being: Reading and Speaking in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things / Sandhya Patel

The Quest for Identity in Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poetry / Laurenz Volkmann

Stereotype, Prejudice, and Illusion in the Austral-Asian Otherworld / David S. La Breche

Desired Exotica: Gendered Spaces in Queer West Indian Diasporic Fiction / Sissy Helff

Dramatizing Alterity: Relational Characterization in Postcolonial British Columbia Plays / Ginny Ratsoy

Disappointing Expectations: Native Canadian Theatre and the Politics of Authenticity / Henning Schäfer

Embracing Oneself and the Other: Overcoming Racial Hatred in South African Drama / Haike Frank

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0567-1

1-4356-5176-6

OCLC:

712988619

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401205672 DOI