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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sharrad, Paul, honoree.

Collett, Anne, editor.

Dale, Leigh, editor.

Series:

Cross/Cultures 206.

Cross/cultures : readings in post/colonial literatures and cultures in English, 0924-1426 ; volume 206

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural geography--Oceania.

Cultural geography.

Pacific Island fiction (English)--History and criticism.

Pacific Island fiction (English).

Oceania--Social life and customs.

Oceania.

Oceania--Civilization.

Sharrad, Paul.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : [Brill], [2018]

Summary:

In Postcolonial Past andamp; 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 Simões da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood Conroy

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page

Foreword

Illustrations and Appendices

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Collision, Connection, and Change

Textiles from the Sea of Islands / Diana Wood Conroy

Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North”* / Diana Brydon

Nationalism from Below / Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay

Xavier Herbert’s Enlightenment / Russell McDougall

Regime Change Literature and Transitional Justice / Tony Simões da

Case Studies

Laughter and the Indigenous Trickster Aesthetics of Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing / Anne Brewster

Claude McKay and the Pestilential City / Anne Collett

Bodily Cloth / Kay Lawrence

Overseas and Underground / Dorothy Jones

“Indias of the mind” / Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan

Singing the Spiral of Time / Bill Ashcroft

Comparative History in Polynesia / Teresia Teaiwa and and Tekura Moeka‘a

Afterword / Lydia Wevers

Back Matter

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-37654-2

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004376540 DOI