Description |
xi, 283 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
Postcolonial studies and Ireland / C.L. Innes -- Crossing the hyphen of history / Willy Maley -- The politics of hybridity / Gerry Smyth -- Inside-out, literature, cultural identity, and Irish migration to England / Aidan Arrowsmith -- States of dislocation, William Trevor's Felicia's journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist / Liam Harte and Lance Pettitt -- It's a free country / Geraldine Stoneham -- I came all the way from Cuba so I could speak like this? / Nara Araújo -- Border anxieties, race and psychoanalysis / David Marriott -- Nationalism's brandings, women's bodies and narratives of the partition / Sujala Singh -- Internalized exiles, three Bolivian writers / Keith Richards -- Writing other lives, nNtive American (post)coloniality and collaborative (auto)biography / Susan Forsyth -- "The limits of goodwill," the values and dangers of revisionism in Keneally's "aboriginal" novels / Denise Vernon -- The trickster at the border, cross-cultural dialogues in the Caribbean / Patricia Murray -- Between speech and writing, "la nouvelle littérature antillaise?" / Sam Haigh -- Hybrid texts, family, state, and empire in a poem by black Cuban poet Excilia Saldaña / Catherine Davies -- Beyond Manicheism, Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain / John Thieme -- "Canvas of blood," Okigbo's African modernism / David Richards -- Closing statement, apprenticeship to the furies / Wilson Harris |
Summary |
"Comparing Postcolonial Literatures brings together a range of critics working in the Hispanic and Francophone as well as Anglophone postcolonial regions, in order to investigate and interrogate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed postcolonial studies. The book aims, in particular, to reconsider the role of the British Isles in this field, and to bridge the gap between postcolonial literatures in English and those written in other languages."--BOOK JACKET |
Notes |
Chiefly papers presented at a conference |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-279) and index |
Subject |
Comparative literature -- Themes, motives -- Congresses.
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Decolonization in literature -- Congresses.
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Postcolonialism -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Kongress
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Bery, Ashok, 1951-
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Murray, Patricia, 1965-
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LC no. |
99043179 |
ISBN |
0312227817 |
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0333723392 : |
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