Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World.
Title:
Towards a Transcultural Future : Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World.
Author:
Davis, Geoffrey V.
ISBN:
9789401201773
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (422 pages)
Series:
Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 79 ; v.No. 79
Cross/Cultures - Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English, 79
Contents:
Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924-2000): A Tribute -- LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES -- An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol -- From The Ibis Tapestry -- Coetzee's Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter -- Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing -- The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee -- Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies -- Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamla's Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s -- The S(p)ecular 'Convert': A Response to Gauri Viswanathan's Outside the Fold -- Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong To Me -- Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne -- The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield -- Multiculturalism in Helen Darville's The Hand That Signed The Paper? -- Mad 'Mad' Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction -- Myopic Visions: Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom -- Jet Lag -- My Mother's Garden -- Reckoning -- Evil Eye -- Bed -- What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? -- A Lover's Anguish in King William St. -- No Title -- Aroma Therapy -- Screen Images -- ABORIGINAL LITERATURE -- Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr's The Light People -- Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo -- Inside the Spiral: Māori Writing in English -- MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY -- "Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables": Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms.
Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje's Toronto and Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo -- "Hybridize or Disappear": Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill -- Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust -- Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa -- Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Paton's Fiction -- Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope's Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley -- The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg -- Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa -- THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN -- In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emecheta's Been-To Novels -- The Other Women's Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta -- "Searching for a Sense of Self": Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie -- An Introduction to Salman Rushdie's Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses -- East is West: Hanif Kureishi's Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastava's Metropolitan Yuppies -- Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me -- Notes on Contributors.
Abstract:
This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents:TOPICS TREATEDPreparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to 'void'; women's overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England.WRITERS DISCUSSEDLalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred WahCRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BYKen Arvidson; Thomas Brückner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppé; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd
Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav Kušnír; Chantal Kwast-Greff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent O'Sullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rønning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schröder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine Vogt-William; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold. CREATIVE WRITING BYKatherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike NicolTHE EDITORS: Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen; Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liège.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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