Title Shared waters : soundings in postcolonial literatures / edited by Stella Borg Barthet

Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages) Series Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 118 Cross/cultures ; 118 Contents 1. Projecting postcolonialism -- Exchanging, sharing our places / Hoda Barakat: ; translated by Carmen Depasquale -- Exclusion and the intellectuals : some thoughts on unequal academic exchange between Africa and the West / Brian Crow -- What lies ahead : consolidation and diversity in postcolonial studies / Jesús Varela Zapata -- Beyond revolution : re-writing violence and the future of postcolonial studies / Daphne Grace -- 2. War and remembrance -- Territorial terrors : colonial spaces and postcolonial revisions : some basic concepts / Gerhard Stilz -- In the enemy's camp : women representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- Shared place and maimed bodies : flesh of the past, soul of the future (or vice-versa) in Once were warriors / Chantal Kwast-Greff -- Historical trauma, lieu de mémoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand / Bärbel Czennia -- 3. Writing women -- Becoming a writer in Morocco / Leila Abouzeid -- Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah / Kifah Hanna -- Going through twentieth-century Malta in the company of Francis Ebejer's heroines / Bernadette Falzon -- Aesthetic (dis)continuities in the African gendered space : the example of younger Nigerian women's writing / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju -- Smells, skins, and spices : Indian spice shops as gendered diasporic spaces in the novels of Indian women writers of the diaspora / Christine Vogt-William -- Generational change : women and writing in the novels of Thea Astley / Marueen Lynch Pèrcopo -- 4. Islands and the sea -- Poems from Malta / Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Maria Grech Ganado, Immanuel Mifsud, Norbert Bugeja -- Currents and swells in Maltese identity : representations of community in Maltese poetry in English since independence / Stella Borg Barthet -- Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Kevin Stephen Magri -- The sea and the erosion of cultural identity in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef / Melanie A. Murray -- The otherless other, or The anonymity of water : unmapping Ondaatje's "Sand sea" self in Minghella's The English patient / Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus -- The sea and the changing nature of cultural identity / Isabel Moutinho -- Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993) / Thomas Bonnici -- "They are us" : interview with Caryl Phillips / Adrian Grima -- 5. Shared spaces -- Sharing media spaces : The Kumars at No. 42 / Hilary P. Dannenberg -- Writing second-generation migrant identity in Meera Syal's fiction / Devon Campbell-Hall -- Is "Sharing places" viable in a postmodern world order? : Salman Rushdie's Novel The ground beneath her feet / Amrit Biswas -- Sharing nation space : representations of India / T. Vijay Kumar -- Exploring boundaries : the north in western Canadian writing / Janne Korkka -- Sharing Quebec : Lorena Gale's Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke's Québécité / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez -- Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke Summary The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Mi Notes Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in March 2005 in Sliema, Malta Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Postcolonialism in literature -- Congresses Decolonization in literature -- Congresses Comparative literature -- Themes, motives -- Congresses Criticism -- History -- 20th century -- Congresses TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Comparative literature -- Themes, motives Criticism Decolonization in literature Postcolonialism in literature Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings History Form Electronic book Author Borg Barthet, Stella. ISBN 9789042027671 9042027673 1282882147 9781282882140 9786612882142 661288214X

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