Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World 2 / / edited by Geoffrey V. Davis, Peter H. Marsden, Bénédicte Ledent, Marc Delrez

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451479003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2005
• ISBN: 94-012-0177-3; 1-4237-8901-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Collana: Cross/Cultures ; ; 79/9.2
• Disciplina: 820.9
• Soggetti: Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature, Modern; Postcolonialism in literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers from the 23rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgements -- Permissions -- Norbert PLATZ et al.: In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924-2000): A Tribute -- LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES -- Thomas BRÜCKNER: An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol -- Mike NICOL: from The Ibis Tapestry -- John DOUTHWAITE: Coetzee's Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter -- Dorothy DRIVER: Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing -- John GAMGEE: The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee -- Richard SAMIN: Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies -- Brian WORSFOLD: Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamla's Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace -- André VIOLA: Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s -- Clara JOSEPH: The S(p)ecular 'Convert': A Response to Gauri Viswanathan's Outside the Fold -- Bernard WILSON: Sub merging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang's London Does Not Belong To Me -- Anne H. RØNNING: Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne -- Bernd HERZOGENRATH: The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield -- Jaroslav KUŠNÍR: ; Multiculturalism in Helen Darville's The Hand That Signed The Paper ? -- Chantal KWAST-GREFF: Mad 'Mad' Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction -- Sigrun MEINIG: Myopic Visions: Rodney Hall's The Second Bridegroom -- Katherine GALLAGHER: Jet Lag. My Mother's Garden. Reckoning -- Peter GOLDSWORTHY: Evil Eye. Bed -- Syd HARREX: 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 -- David CALLAHAN: Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr's The Light People -- Nicole SCHRÖDER: Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo -- Judith DELL PANNY: Inside the Spiral: Māori Writing in English -- MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY -- Marc COLAVINCENZO: "Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables": Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms -- Robert FRASER: Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje's Toronto and Yvonne Vera's Bulawayo -- Susanne HILF: "Hybridize or Disappear": Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill -- D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and Dust -- Obododimma OHA: Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest -- for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa -- M.Z. MALABA : Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Paton's Fiction -- Jochen PETZOLD: Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope's Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley -- Anne FUCHS: The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg -- Malcolm PURKEY: Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa -- THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN -- Eleonora CHIAVETTA: In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emecheta's Been-To Novels -- Michael MEYER: The Other Women's Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta -- Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY: "Searching for a Sense of Self": Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie -- Stéphanie RAVILLON: An Introduction to Salman Rushdie's Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses -- Cecile SANDTEN: East is West: Hanif Kureishi's Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastava's Metropolitan Yuppies -- Christine VOGT-WILLIAM: Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me -- Notes on Contributors.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 treated: Preparing 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 discussed: Lalithambika 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 Wah Contributions by Ken 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 by Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol.