LEADER 05308nam 22007211a 450 001 9910450309503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-585-32239-2 010 $a9786610925971 010 $a1-280-92597-3 010 $a0-88920-607-4 035 $a(CKB)1000000000006264 035 $a(OCoLC)45844411 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary2001931 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000283014 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11912521 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000283014 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10324953 035 $a(PQKB)10753655 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3050184 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18007 035 $a(CaPaEBR)402376 035 $a(CaBNvSL)jme00324126 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3241524 035 $a(PPN)249683458 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3050184 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr2001931 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL92597 035 $a(OCoLC)922951046 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000006264 100 $a20000209d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aPostcolonizing the Commonwealth$b[electronic resource] $estudies in literature and culture /$fRowland Smith, editor 210 $aWaterloo, Ont. $cWilfrid Laurier University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-88920-352-0 311 $a0-88920-358-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Rowland Smith -- 1. Postcolonial / Commonwealth studies in the Caribbean : points of difference / Edward Baugh -- 2. Proximities : from Asymptote to Zeugma / Alan Lawson -- 3. Looking in from "beyond" : Commonwealth studies in French universities / Jacqueline Bardolph -- 4. Climbing Mount Everest : postcolonialism in the culture of ascent / Stephen Slemon -- 5. Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas : Metissage in Breyten Breytenbach' s Return to paradise / Johan U. Jacobs -- 6. Inheritance in question : the magical realist mode in Afrikaans fiction / Sheila Roberts -- 7. Natal women's letters in the 1850's : Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and "second-world" ambi/valence / Margaret J. Daymond -- 8. Rural women and African resistance : Lauretta Ngcobo's novel And they didn't die / Cherry Clayton -- 9. Five minutes of silence : voices of Iranian feminists in the postrevolutionary age / Nima Naghibi -- 10. FAS and cultural discourse : who speaks for native women? / Cheryl Suzack -- 11. Can Rohinton Mistry's realism rescue the novel? / Laura Moss -- 12. Dislocations of culture : unhousing and the unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame / Susan Spearey -- 13. A vision of unity : Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the quest for authenticity / Mac Fenwick -- 14. Cowboy songs, Indian speeches and the language of poetry / J. Edward Chamberlin -- Index. 330 3 $aWomen and resistance in Iran; cowboy songs; fetal alcohol syndrome; the conquest of Everest; women settlers in Natal. What do these topics have in common? The study of what used to be called Commonwealth literature, or the new literatures, has by now come to be known as postcolonial study. This collection of essays investigates the status of postcolonial studies today. The contributors come from three generations: the pioneers who introduced study of the new literatures into university English departments, the next generation who refined and developed many of the theoretical positions embodied in postcolonial study, and the next, much younger, generation, who use the established practices of the discipline to investigate the application of this theory in a wide range of cultural contexts. Although the authors write from such different starting points, a surprisingly similar set of images, phrases and topics of concern emerge in their essays. They return constantly to issues of difference and similarity, the re-examination of categories that often appear to be too rigidly defined in current postcolonial practices, and to concepts of sharing: experience, ideas of home, and even the use of land. Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture offers an intriguing analysis of the state of postcolonial criticism today and of the application of postcolonial methods to a variety of texts and historical events. It is an invaluable contribution to the current debate in both literary and cultural studies. 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aCommonwealth literature (English)$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 606 $aPostcolonialism 606 $aPostcolonialism$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aCommonwealth literature (English)$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 615 0$aPostcolonialism. 615 0$aPostcolonialism$xStudy and teaching (Higher) 676 $a820.9/9171241 701 $aSmith$b Rowland$f1938-$0975418 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910450309503321 996 $aPostcolonizing the Commonwealth$92221145 997 $aUNINA