Post-colonial literatures : expanding the canon / edited by Deborah L. Madsen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Madsen, Deborah L.

Series:

Reconfigurations--critical readings in post-colonialism Post-colonial literatures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Literature and society--English-speaking countries--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

English literature--Foreign countries--History and criticism.

English literature.

English literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Canon (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 237 p. : ill.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Essays in which the ethnic literatures of North America are added to the developing postcolonial canon.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

1. Beyond the Commonwealth: Post-Colonialism and American Literature

THE EXCLUSION OF US TEXTS FROM THE POST-COLONIAL CANON

COMPARATIVITY AS A POST-COLONIAL METHODOLOGY

Works Cited

2. Post-Colonialism in the United States: Diversity or Hybridity?

IS THE US POST-COLONIAL?

IMMIGRATION AS A MASCULINE ENTERPRISE

THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE

3. Ethical Reading and Resistant Texts

4. Fractures: Written Displacements in Canadian/US Literary Relations

MINUS TIME - 1

IMAGE 1 - HOLLYWOOD NORTH

MINUS TIME - 2

IMAGE 2 - THE BULLY

MINUS TIME - 3

FINAL IMAGE/IMAGE WITHOUT END - THE ABORIGINAL

5. The Rhythm of Difference: Language and Silence in "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" and "The Piano

6. Locating and Celebrating Difference: Writing by South African and Aboriginal Women Writers

SEMI-FICTIONALIZED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

REPRESENTATION AND WRITING

BESSIE HEAD

LOCATION, GEOGRAPHY AND IDENTITY

7. Coming in From the Margins: Gender in Contemporary Zimbabwean Writing

8. The Memory of Slavery in Fred D'Aguiar's "Feeding the Ghosts

9. 'Versioning' the Revolution: Gender and Politics in Merle Collins's "Angel

10. Erupting Funk: The Political Style of Toni Morrison's "Tar Baby" and "The Bluest Eye

11. Afro-Hispanic Literature and Feminist Theories: Thinking Ethics

I

II

III

12. Chicano/a Literature: An Active Interanimating of Competing Discourses

13. Border Theory and the Canon

14. Racialism and Liberation in Native American Literature

15. Ants in the System: 'Thinking Strongly' about Native American Stories

List of Contributors.

Index

abolition,

107

108

Aborigines

2

10

11

54-5

60-2

66-8

72-85

academy

19

29

148

149

151

152

153

160

186

190

210

Acuña, Rudolfo 169

Adam, Ian 5

Africa

1

3

4

5

16

17

25

26

73

74

76

81

84

88

89

98

99

120

126

137-40

155

158

161

African Americans

23

27

34

72

80

117

118

133-45

150

Afro-Hispanic literature

148-61

Afro-Hispanic Review 150

Afro-Hispanic Studies 149-52

Alarcón, Norma 193

allegory

200

Allen, Paula Gunn 36

alterity

30

55

American literature

6

36

218

Americanization 188

Americas, the

113

183

Anaya, Rudolfo 176

Anderson, Benedict 189

Antigua 155

Anzaldúa, Gloria

8

166

169

170

171

172

176

180

185

193

apartheid

75

82

Appiah, Kwame Anthony 207

appropriation 79

Ardrey, Robert 171

Armstrong, Louis

137

138

Arteaga, Alfred

167

168

174

175

194

Ashcroft, Bill

9

20

Asia, south-east

assimilation

22

32

Attridge, Derek 83

Atwood, Margaret

45

51

52

Australasia 3

Australia

61

66

69

79

authenticity

90

114

209

authorship 29

autobiography

11-12

74-81

85

101

122

130

159

Avalos, David 186

Aztecs

Baker, Houston

Bakhtin, Mikhail 141

Balsamo, Anne 153.

Bandler, Faith

77

Baraka, Amiri

134

135

Barrera, Eduardo 186

Barrio, Raymond 174

Bashir, Leyli Miller 23-6

Basso, Keith 219

Bataille, G.M. 207

Baudrillard, Jean

46

49

53

54

Bennett, Louise 120

Berkhofer, R.F.

208

211

Bhabha, Homi

15

55-6

biography

Bishop, Maurice

127

Black Nationalism 126

Black Power movement

black writing 2

Blackburn, Robin 105

blackness

blues 145

Boehmer, Elleke

7

83

Booth, Wayne 33

Border Art Workshop /Taller de Arte Fronterizo 186

borders

191

writing, 3

writing, 164

writing, 180-203

Botswana

Boyce Davies, Carole 98

Bradford, William 4

Brathwaite, Edward 105

Brink, André 75

Britain

24

104

Brown, Russell

46-7

Bruce-Novoa, Juan

164

165

173

Bruzzi, Stella 59

Brydon, Diana

Bush, Barbara 108

Bush, Catherine

45-6

48-50

52-4

bush, the Australian 69

Calder, Jenni 207

Calderón, Héctor

Campion, Jane

58-60

62-5

70

Canada

35

40

41

45-56

Candelaria, Cordelia 192

cannibalism

142

143

canon

12

156

157

180-203

Carby, Hazel

CARD [the Campaign Against Racial Discrimination] 117

Caribbean

120-31

141

154

Carmichael, Stokeley 117

Carpentier, Alejo 92

Case, George 108.

Castillo, Ana 193

Castillo, Debra

Castro-Gómez, Santiago 198

Cather, Willa

222

223

Caute, David 89

Central America

Certeau, Michel de

182

188-9

Chicano Movement 174

Chicano/as

195

199

203

culture, 27

culture, 192

writing, 2

writing, 5

writing, 10

writing, 164-76

writing, 190

writing, 192-203

Chinodya, Shimmer 95

Chodorow, Nancy 128

Chopin, Kate 100

Christian, Barbara

Chávez, Denise

Chávez, John R.

Cinco de Maya 19

Cisneros, Sandra

Cixous, Hélène

97

Clare, Monica 77

Clemens, Theresa 77

Clements, W. 212

Clifford, James 153

Clifton, James

206

Clinton, William [Bill] 24

Clitoridectomy 16

Code switching 9

Coetzee, J.M. 84-5

Collingwood, Luke

106

Collins, Merle

Colombia 150

Colonial literature

Colonialism

14

67

91

123

125

139

140

164-71

colonialist, 7

colonialist, 9

colonialist, 60

colonialist, 63

colonialist, 69

colonialist, 149

colonized, 2

colonized, 7

colonized, 8

colonized, 12

colonized, 122

colonized, 123

colonized, 124

colonized, 130

colonized, 133

colonized, 140

colonized, 141

colonized, 172

colonized, 173

colonized, 188

colonized, 196

colonized, 197

colonizer, 8

colonizer, 59

colonizer, 62

colonizer, 63

colonizer, 68

colonizer, 85

colonizer, 122

colonizer, 130

colonizer, 133.

colonizer, 141

colonizer, 188

Coltrane, John 138

Columbus, Christopher 190

commodification 62

Commonwealth Literature

comparativity

5-11

Coronil, Fernando 183

Cortés, Hernán

COSAW [Congress of South African Writers Collective]

Coser, Stelamaris 133

Crawford, John 173

creole

126-7

131

crime narrative 200-1

cross-cultural identity

Crosse, Ronald 50

Cuba

Cyrus, Stanley 151

D'Aguiar, Fred

104-18

Dabydeen, David 105

Dangerembga, Tsitsi

94-5

Dante 223

decolonization

121

124

deconstruction

144

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam

Delany, Paul 48

Deleuze, Gilles

18

Delillo, Don 55

democracy

Derrida, Jacques 196

dialect

dialogism

214

diary 80

diaspora

black, 2

black, 5

black, 117

black, 118

black, 139

black, 155

black, 160

discontinuous narrative 5

diversity

Dodgson, Pauline 2

Dominican Republic

Donaldson, Laura E. 39

Dorris, Michael

209-10

Douglass, Frederick 114

Du Bois, W.W.B. 114

Ecuador

Ellison, Ralph 145

empire, British

England

English, language

192

Englishes 10

Enlightenment

105

Equiano, Olaudah 108

Esquivel, Laura 180

essentialism

ethics

33

43

128

ethnic literature

31

43.

164.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611733131

9781849645041

1849645043

9781281733139

128173313X

9780585433776

0585433771

OCLC:

51066893