New soundings in postcolonial writing : critical and creative contours / edited by Janet Wilson, Chris Ringrose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Janet, editor.

Ringrose, Chris, editor.

Series:

Cross/cultures ; Volume 189.

Cross/Cultures, ; Volume 189

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Australian fiction.

Australian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Genre:

Festschriften

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, [Netherlands] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.

Summary:

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.

Contents:

Preliminary Material / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose

Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose

A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies / J. Michael Dash

The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott / Robert D. Hamner

From “The Rivers of Babylon” to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition / Kathleen Gyssels

The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados / John T. Gilmore

The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004) / Bénédicte Ledent

A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table / Geetha Ganapathy–Doré

“A Message in a Bottle”: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French / Laetitia Zecchini

Jejuri–Bandra–Jejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra

Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desai’s Negotiation of Cultural Gaps / Marta Dvorák

Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales / Muneeza Shamsie

Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela / Jean–Pierre Durix

Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory O’Brien / Gordon Collier

“The Biggest Adventure”: Indigenous People and White Men’s Wars / Geoffrey V. Davis

Chinese Mothers / David Dabydeen

Cabral / Keki N. Daruwalla

Memoirs: for Bruce / Adil Jussawalla

The Book of Bruce / Jeet Thayil

Fabulous Eyelids / Olive Senior

For Bruce (& Adèle) / Fred D’aguiar

Past Dawn / Tabish Khair

Puppet’s Life Ends on String / Anand Thakore

A Sheet Like Snow / Jane Bhandari

Threshold / Manohar Shetty

I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook) / Smita Agrawal

Back / John Haynes

A Mute Biography / Kevin Ireland

Wonder of the Age / Shanta Acharya

Habits: Remnants / Karthika Naïr

They Say, They Never Wrote / Alamgir Hashmi

Conch / Susan Visvanathan

Notes on the Contributors and Editors / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose

Index / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-32927-7

OCLC:

960759732

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004329270 DOI