| Description |
xiv, 412 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 0924-1426 ; 117 |
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Cross/cultures ; 117
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| Contents |
1. Towards a postcolonial Commonwealth -- 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 -- 2. Borders and crossings -- 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 crew in all the world" : sharing places in South Africa / Natasha Distiller -- Nadine Gordimer's The pickup : immigration/emigration in today's world / Ben Lebdai -- 3. Perception, space, time -- Cognitive encounters : priming the reader for cultural contact / Susanne Reichl -- The limitations of the chronotype : female longing for unconstrained space in Yvonne Vera's Butterfly burning / Katrin Berndt -- Amit Chaudhuri's Afternoon raag : interplay and translation of the chronotypes / 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 -- 4. Religion and the sacred -- "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 -- 5. History and narrative -- 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 -- 6. Language and translation -- 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 |
Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in 2005 in Sliema, Malta |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cultural relations in literature -- Congresses.
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Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Borg Barthet, Stella.
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European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (2005 : Sliema, Malta)
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| LC no. |
2010292925 |
| ISBN |
9042027649 (geb.) |
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9789042027640 (geb.) |
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