1. Introduction / D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke -- 2. Illusion and reality / Nayantara Sahgal -- 3. Postmodernism under the Raj?: an investigation of ironic sycophancy / Ken Goodwin -- 4. "The business of a woman's life" / Yasmine Gooneratne -- 5. Capitals and provinces / Dan Jacobson -- 6. African literature teaching in South African university English departments / Bernth Lindfors -- 7. Islands and continents: exiles of paradise / Satendra Nandan -- 8. Managing migrancy: narratives of exile and diaspora from Aime Cesaire to Bharati Mukherjee / Zoherh T. Sullivan -- 9. Shifting continents / colliding cultures: spatial odysseys in diaspora writing / Susan Speary -- 10. The spaces between: regionalism and literary history / Bruce Bennett -- 11. Salman Rushdie: the island that tried to swallow a continent / James Harrison -- 12. The Italian territory of Nuruddin Farah's fiction / Itala Vivan -- 13. Islands in the stream: reading J.M. Coetzee's landscapes / S. Manzoorul Islam -- 14. 'Walking unpublished under palm-trees'?: transformations of the colonial tropical landscape in South-Asian post-colonial literature / Gerhard Stilz -- 15. Islands of resistance: 'postcolonial' literature and the politics of civil society / Frank Schulze-Engler -- 16. Literature without borders: perspectives on historical and cultural particularities / Victor J. Ramraj
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Selection of papers presented at the Tenth ACLALS Triennial Conference, held in 1995 in Colombo
