Shared waters : soundings in postcolonial literatures / edited by Stella Borg Barthet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference (2005 : Sliema, Malta)

Contributor:

Borg Barthet, Stella.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 118.

Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Colonies in literature.

Postcolonialism.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (424 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women’s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42 ; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell–Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder–Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast–Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt–William.

Contents:

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 / Jesus 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 memoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand / Barbel Czennia

3. Writing women

Becoming a writer in Morocco / Leila Abouzeid

Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghadah al-Samman and Sahar Khalifah / 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 Percopo

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 Quebecite / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez

Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke.

Notes:

Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in March 2005 in Sliema, Malta.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-88214-7

9786612882142

90-420-2767-3

OCLC:

560240401

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042027671 DOI