New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing

Critical and Creative Contours
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-32641-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 189, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 590 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien).

The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wilson, Janet

Ringrose, Chris

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

JANET WI LSON AND CHRIS RINGROSE: Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM

THE CARIBBEAN
J. MICHAEL DASH: A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies
ROBERT HAMNER: The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
KATHLEEN GYSSELS: From “The Rivers of Babylon” to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition
JOHN T. GILMORE: The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados

ENGLAND
BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT: The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004)
GEETHA GANAPATHY DORE: A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table

SOUTH-EAST ASIA
LAETITIA ZECCHINI: “A Message in a Bottle”: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA: Jejuri–Bandra–Jejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar
MARTA DVORÁK: Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desai’s Negotiation of Cultural Gaps
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE:Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales

NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
JEAN–PI ERRE DURIX: Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela
GORDON COLLIER: Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory O’Brien
GEOFFREY V. DAVIS“The Biggest Adventure”: Indigenous People and White Men’s Wars

CREATIVE WRITING
DAVID DABYDEEN: Chinese Mothers
KEKI N. DARUWALLA: Cabral
ADIL JUSSAWALLA: Memoirs: for Bruce
JEET THAYIL: The Book of Bruce
OLIVE SENIOR: Fabulous Eyelids
FRED D’AGUIAR: For Bruce (& Adèle)
TABISH KHAIR: Past Dawn
ANAND THAKORE: Puppet’s Life Ends on String
JANE BHANDARI: A Sheet Like Snow
MANOHAR SHETTY: Threshold
SMITA AGRAWAL: I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook)
JOHN HAYNES: Back
KEVIN IRELAND: A Mute Biography
SHANTA ACHARYA: Wonder of the Age
KARTHIKA NAIR: Habits: Remnants
ALAMGIR HASHMI: They Say, They Never Wrote
SUSAN VISVANATHAN: Conch

Über Autor(innen)

JANET WILSON is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton. She has published widely on New Zealand and Australian literature, including diaspora writers Katherine Mansfield, Fleur Adcock and Dan Davin. She coedits Journal of Postcolonial Writing.

CHRIS RINGROSE is Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. He has written on postcolonial authors like Ben Okri and Kazuo Ishiguro, is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and a translator, prize winning poet and short story writer.