Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32277-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 192, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth a range of prominent writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity. The contributors, writing about a wide range of countries, affirm the freedom of the human spirit, even within unjust or oppressive social systems. They show the power of words to illuminate injustices and unite different peoples.

Salman Rushdie famously declared that Commonwealth Literature has had its day: this book provides a vital antidote to this idea. Editors Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven have put together this mixture of personal reflections, critical overviews, historical re-evaluations and creative works to illustrate the vitality of this genre.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robinson, Sandra

Niven, Alastair

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationale Menschen- und Minderheitenrechte, Kinderrechte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Caliban’s Dream, by ALASTAIR NIVEN

ASPECTS OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE

Commonwealth Literature Studies: Writers versus Critics, by HENA MAES–JELINEK
Out the Box?, by DENNIS WALDER
First Language: Yours, Mine, Ours, by SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
Cristóbal Colón/Cristoforo Colombo/Christopher Columbus: What’s in a Name? Translation and Politics in a Postcolonial World, by AMANDA HOPKINSON
Gitanjali 100 Years On: Tagore for Today and for the Future, by WILLIAM RADICE
Folk, Modern, Oriental, Dramatic or Communist: Translating Tagore into Hungarian, by IMRE BANGHA
Tagore’s Poetry: What It Can Teach Us, by KETAKI KUSHARI DYSON

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL

Empire and Me: An Indian Testimony, by HARISH TRIVEDI
My Life Journey into the Empire of Nobodies, Rogues, “Peoples without History” and Associated History Wars: Origins of the Fatal Attraction of an Historian to ‘Non-history’, by IAN DUFFIELD
Growing Up in Malta and Empire Influence, by DANIEL MASSA
The View from Elsewhere: Fiji, by SATENDRA NANDAN
A Post-Imperial Life, by KAYE WHITEMAN
The View from Elsewhere: Australia, by PETER PORTER
Many Worlds, Many Selves, by MEIRA CHAND
The View from Elsewhere: Egypt, by PENELOPE LIVELY

ASPECT S OF EMPIRE

A Sweet, Just, Boyish Master: The Repressed Soul of the Empire-Man, by JAKE ARNOTT
Tagore, the Elmhirsts, and Dartington: Some Unexpected Educational Connections, by URSULA KING
His Natural Life and Natural Rights: An Inquiry into Philosophical, Literary, and Legal Themes, by SANDRA ROBINSON

CREATIVE WORKS
Cactus Town, by AAMER HUSSEIN
A Season of Disillusion, by MARGARET BUSBY
Heaven’s Edge, by ROMESH GUNESEKERA
Interrogation, by JACK MAPANJE

Über Autor(innen)

Sandra Robinson, Associate Director, Cumberland Lodge, has written several published articles on human rights and literature, and has previously edited four books, including Glorious Seclusion (Phillimore 2011).

Alastair Niven edited The Journal of Commonwealth Literature for 13 years. He was Principal of Cumberland Lodge 2001-2013 and has held academic posts at the universities of Ghana, Leeds, Stirling, Aarhus, London and Oxford. He was President of English PEN 2003 – 2007.