A sea for encounters : essays towards a postcolonial commonwealth / edited by Stella Borg Barthet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference

Contributor:

Borg Barthet, Stella.

Series:

Cross/Cultures 117.

Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 117

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Commonwealth literature (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.

Commonwealth literature (English).

Commonwealth fiction (English)--History and criticism--Congresses.

Commonwealth fiction (English).

Postcolonialism--Commonwealth countries--Congresses.

Postcolonialism.

Postcolonialism in literature--Congresses.

Postcolonialism in literature.

Commonwealth countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 412 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of ‘Commonwealth’ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; ‘sharing places’ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera. Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne Hanquart–Turner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Gen’ichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen King–Aribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes López–Ropero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción Mengibar–Rico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature / Daniel Massa

The Commitment Against Exclusion / Peter O. Stummer

The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications / Monica Bungaro

Crossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a Life / Jogamaya Bayer

Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black / Sabrina Brancato

Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man / Gen’ichiro Itakura

The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n Breadfruit / Lourdes López–Ropero

“The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South Africa / Natasha Distiller

Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s World / Ben Lebdai

Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact / Susanne Reichl

The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly Burning / Katrin Berndt

Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes / Evelyne Hanquart–Turner

Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s Performance / Marie Herbillon

In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s Essays / Brigitte Scheer–Schaezler

“Dominion From Sea to Sea”: Christianity, Imperialism and the Trope of Conversion / Dorothy Lane

Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart / Karen King–Aribisala

“You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayib Salih’s Season of Migration to the North / Jamie S. Scott

Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia / Robert Cribb

Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations?: The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif / Amin Malak

A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back?: Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the East / Jacqueline Jondot

The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement / Ursula Kluwick

‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin / Andrea Strolz

Rewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering Babylon / Cynthia Vanden Driesen

The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean / Concepción Mengíbar Rico

Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh / Tuomas Huttunen

Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others / Clare Thake Vassallo

Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles?: Patterns of Interaction between Married Couples in Malta / Lydia Sciriha

Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue / Judith Lütge Coullie

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-420-2765-7

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789042027657 DOI