Postcolonial past & present : negotiating literary and cultural geographies : essays for Paul Sharrad / edited by Anne Collett, Leigh Dale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharrad, Paul, honouree.

Collett, Anne, editor.

Dale, Leigh, editor.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; 206.

Cross/cultures ; volume 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Literature and society.

Literature and history.

Genre:

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xvi, 234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Postcolonial past and present

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

Summary:

In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau'ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These `makers' include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces. Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka'a, Tony Simoes da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood Conroy.

Contents:

Textiles from the sea of islands : Sacred Heart nuns and craft advisers in Papua New Guinea and Australia / Diana Wood Conroy

Reading across the Pacific, reorienting "north" / Diana Brydon

Nationalism from below : folk nationalist formations of Mukunda Das / Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay

Xavier Herbert's Enlightenment : the Solomon Islands nightmare, 1928 / Russell McDougall

Regime change literature and transitional justice / Tony Simões da Silva

Laughter and the indigenous trickster aesthetics of Marie Munkara's Every secret thing / Anne Brewster

Claude McKay and the pestilential city : the metropolis, the clinic, the crisis / Anne Collett

Bodily cloth : the making process in artworks by Elsje van Keppel and Jane Whiteley / Kay Lawrence

Overseas and underground : travel and travellers in Janet Frame's fiction / Dorothy Jones

"Indias of the mind" : maps, mothers, and ethnicized Wonder Woman outfits in Australian-Indian fiction / Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan

Singing the spiral of time : Albert Wendt's The adventures of Vela / Bill Ashcroft

Comparative history of Polynesia : some challenges of studying the past in the postcolonial present / Teresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka'a.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Postcolonial past & present.

ISBN:

9004376534

9789004376533

OCLC:

1041879087