Anna Rutherford has been the most dynamic ambassador of Australian culture in Europe. More than any other single person, she has been instrumental in spreading interest in Commonwealth and post-colonial studies. Wherever she has been in the world, she has brought people together in friendship and intellectual endeavour. This volume ranges widely over the areas Anna has promoted as teacher, editor and publisher.
Table of contents:Hena MAES-JELINEK: Prologue and Acknowledgements. Derry JEFFARES: To Anna. Aritha van HERK: Anna Rutherford Excursions. Lars JENSEN: The Far Outdoors. Maggie BUTCHER: An Open Letter to Anna. Klaus STUCKERT: Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise. Sally Morgan and Michelle Cliff. Michel FABRE: Dear Anna. Doug. KILLAM: Unchallenged Excellence. Mette JØRGENSEN: Friendship in a Second Language. Wilson HARRIS: A Brief Memoir. Beverley FARMER: Annas Hus. Jeanne DELBAERE: Annaarhus. Jan KEMP: In Menton after EACLALS at Nice. Cherry CLAYTON: The Secret Spring. Alamgir HASHMI: Anna and Kirsten: A Photograph. Kirpal SINGH: Looking Back. Alex MILLER: The Wine Merchant of Aarhus. David DABYDEEN: from The Counting House. Ian STEPHEN: Cyanus. Marion HALLIGAN: Shagreen. Jean ARASANAYAGAM: from Dragons in the Wilderness: The Father (Early 1900s). John THIEME: The Word. Peter O. STUMMER: The Unbiassed Search. Derry JEFFARES: A Dreaming Sequence. Les A. MURRAY: Cotton Flannelette. Diane FAHEY: Macaws. Lauris EDMOND: Tree surgeon; Bronze in a town square, City of Derry, Northern Ireland; Trapeze; Undeserved. Ian ADAM: from GLASS/gloss: Hopscotch; this is my spring poem. Bruce BENNETT: Homecomings: A Personal Reflection. Brian MATTHEWS: Tears. Doireann MACDERMOTT: Of Maps, Shipwrecks, and Islands. Nelson WATTIE: Singing for Witi and Ross. Andrew TAYLOR: Spring. Stephen GRAY: Ovid in His Exile. Yasmine GOONERATNE: Do Not Show Me the Graves. Jean ARASANAYAGAM: Decolonizing the Self: Viewing the Queen (1950s-1980s). Helen TIFFIN: African Violets. Ian STEPHEN: Poems and photo-poems. Michael SHARKEY: Rite of Passage; The New Boy; Recollecting the Köln Master's Faces. Alamgir HASHMI: Salaam to T-Sai Lun; Tropics. Susheila NASTA: Wasafiri. History, Politics and Post-Colonial Literature. Paul SHARRAD: The Post-Colonial Gesture. Gerry TURCOTTE: Prolegomena to Un/Covering Alter/Native Scripts. Livio Dobrez: Not European-Made. Civilization and its Discontents. Alastair NIVEN: Wordsworth's "Daffodils". A Post-Colonial Exhumation. Victor J. RAMRAJ: The Anna Rutherford-Aarhus Conference. Common Wealth Twenty-Five Years On. Jennifer STRAUSS: Tierra del Fuego. Elaine LINDSAY: "From the earth is risse a sun". The Later Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan. Bruce CLUNIES ROSS: On Not Meeting Barbara Hanrahan in the Adelaide Suburbs. A Colonial Rhapsody. Diana BRYDON: Trousered Women. Cross-Dressing in Some Contemporary Australian and Canadian Texts. Dorothy JONES: Women, Place, and Myth-Making. A Post-Colonial Perspective. Isabel CARRERA SUÁREZ: Carnal and Spiritual Empires. Catholic-Cultural Iconography in Lucía Guerra's "De brujas y de mártires". Marina WARNER: Siren, Hyphen, or, The Maid Beguiled. R.L. Stevenson's "The Beach at Falesá". Chantal ZABUS: The Power of "the Blue-Eyed Hag". A Note on Gynocracy in Marina Warner's Indigo. Joan KIRKBY: Abject Discourse and the Imperial Gaze in Rosa Cappiello's Oh Lucky Country. Helen TIFFIN: "Persistent Rumours". Empire, Gender and "the Savage" in Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four and Lee Langley's Persistent Rumours. Jacqueline BARDOLPH: Celebration of Life, Celebration of Language. Two Short Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo and Patricia Grace. Britta OLINDER: Gender-Power Issues in Indian Terms. Shashi Deshpande's Fiction. Landeg WHITE: Massamba with the Brilliant Flowers (i.m. Luiza Drennon, 1924-91); The Three Graces; Update from a Distant Friend (Zomba to Blantyre, after Jan Kees Van Donge). Susan BALLYN: The Grass Spider; Nothing is; Rooms. Anne WALMSLEY: Bridges of Sleep. Continental and Island Inheritance in the Visual Arts of Guyana. Mark WILLIAMS: "Urban Archipelagoes". Wilson Harris and the Post-Colonial Novel. Mark McWATT: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer. Exile and the Trans-Cultural Imagination in Guyanese Novelists. Sue THOMAS: Conflicted Textual Affiliations. Jean Rhys's "The Insect" and "Heat". Tim CRIBB: From Aran to St Lucia. Literary Modernism and the Folk Play. Bénédicte LEDENT: Is Counter-Discursive Criticism Obsolescent? Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground. Louis JAMES: Eating the Dead. A Note on Cooking in Caribbean Literature. Edward BAUGH: You ever notice how. Velma POLLARD: Name. Arthur DRAYTON: Homage to Miss Vincy. Geert LERNOUT: "What Shall We Do With The Shrunken Tailor?" Salman Rushdie's Intertextuality. Gerhard STILZ: Return to the Jungle? Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes in Indian-English Literature. D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Quartet: The Other Tagore. Shirley GEOK-LIN LIM: Crossroads and Crossed Words. Kirpal SINGH: Cosmopolitanism in Singaporean Literature in English. Satendra NANDAN: Shooting the Deer, Shimla. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: taj view; at dhvanyaloka; delhi; dawn; pocomaniacs. Geoff DAVIS: The Intoxicated Octopus and the Garlic-Kissed Prawn. On South African Bibliography. Bernth LINDFORS: Towards an Achebe Iconography. Itala VIVAN: Nuruddin Farah's Beautiful Mat and its Italian Plot. Coral Ann HOWELLS: Taking Risks. Alice Munro's "The Jack Randa Hotel". Martin LEER: The Map of the Story. Drawn from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Bernard HICKEY: Opting for Newfoundland. Margaret Duley's Cold Pastoral. Konrad GROSS: The Voyageurs. Images of Canada's Archetypal Frontiersmen. Chris TIFFIN: Pacific Writing and the Diminishing Islands. W.H. NEW: A Prologue to Mansfield's Epilogues. Jean-Pierre DURIX: Patricia Grace's Potiki or the Trickster behind the Scenes. Robert SELLICK: Alex Miller: Games and Puzzles. Russell McDOUGALL: George Darrell's The Sunny South. Cultural Allegory and Racial Ideology. Veronica BRADY: "This world, the next world, and Australia". Jennifer STRAUSS: Inscribing the Tree in the Poetry of Judith Wright. Gareth GRIFFITHS: Representing Difference in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung. Graham HUGGAN: Peter Carey's Fiction and the Incriminated Reader. Pat DOBREZ: The Bundanon Gift. Uses of the Feudal in Contemporary Australia. Gordon COLLIER: Commas, Caps, and Corrections. Notes Towards a Standard Edition of Patrick White's The Solid Mandala.
Table of contents:Hena MAES-JELINEK: Prologue and Acknowledgements. Derry JEFFARES: To Anna. Aritha van HERK: Anna Rutherford Excursions. Lars JENSEN: The Far Outdoors. Maggie BUTCHER: An Open Letter to Anna. Klaus STUCKERT: Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise. Sally Morgan and Michelle Cliff. Michel FABRE: Dear Anna. Doug. KILLAM: Unchallenged Excellence. Mette JØRGENSEN: Friendship in a Second Language. Wilson HARRIS: A Brief Memoir. Beverley FARMER: Annas Hus. Jeanne DELBAERE: Annaarhus. Jan KEMP: In Menton after EACLALS at Nice. Cherry CLAYTON: The Secret Spring. Alamgir HASHMI: Anna and Kirsten: A Photograph. Kirpal SINGH: Looking Back. Alex MILLER: The Wine Merchant of Aarhus. David DABYDEEN: from The Counting House. Ian STEPHEN: Cyanus. Marion HALLIGAN: Shagreen. Jean ARASANAYAGAM: from Dragons in the Wilderness: The Father (Early 1900s). John THIEME: The Word. Peter O. STUMMER: The Unbiassed Search. Derry JEFFARES: A Dreaming Sequence. Les A. MURRAY: Cotton Flannelette. Diane FAHEY: Macaws. Lauris EDMOND: Tree surgeon; Bronze in a town square, City of Derry, Northern Ireland; Trapeze; Undeserved. Ian ADAM: from GLASS/gloss: Hopscotch; this is my spring poem. Bruce BENNETT: Homecomings: A Personal Reflection. Brian MATTHEWS: Tears. Doireann MACDERMOTT: Of Maps, Shipwrecks, and Islands. Nelson WATTIE: Singing for Witi and Ross. Andrew TAYLOR: Spring. Stephen GRAY: Ovid in His Exile. Yasmine GOONERATNE: Do Not Show Me the Graves. Jean ARASANAYAGAM: Decolonizing the Self: Viewing the Queen (1950s-1980s). Helen TIFFIN: African Violets. Ian STEPHEN: Poems and photo-poems. Michael SHARKEY: Rite of Passage; The New Boy; Recollecting the Köln Master's Faces. Alamgir HASHMI: Salaam to T-Sai Lun; Tropics. Susheila NASTA: Wasafiri. History, Politics and Post-Colonial Literature. Paul SHARRAD: The Post-Colonial Gesture. Gerry TURCOTTE: Prolegomena to Un/Covering Alter/Native Scripts. Livio Dobrez: Not European-Made. Civilization and its Discontents. Alastair NIVEN: Wordsworth's "Daffodils". A Post-Colonial Exhumation. Victor J. RAMRAJ: The Anna Rutherford-Aarhus Conference. Common Wealth Twenty-Five Years On. Jennifer STRAUSS: Tierra del Fuego. Elaine LINDSAY: "From the earth is risse a sun". The Later Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan. Bruce CLUNIES ROSS: On Not Meeting Barbara Hanrahan in the Adelaide Suburbs. A Colonial Rhapsody. Diana BRYDON: Trousered Women. Cross-Dressing in Some Contemporary Australian and Canadian Texts. Dorothy JONES: Women, Place, and Myth-Making. A Post-Colonial Perspective. Isabel CARRERA SUÁREZ: Carnal and Spiritual Empires. Catholic-Cultural Iconography in Lucía Guerra's "De brujas y de mártires". Marina WARNER: Siren, Hyphen, or, The Maid Beguiled. R.L. Stevenson's "The Beach at Falesá". Chantal ZABUS: The Power of "the Blue-Eyed Hag". A Note on Gynocracy in Marina Warner's Indigo. Joan KIRKBY: Abject Discourse and the Imperial Gaze in Rosa Cappiello's Oh Lucky Country. Helen TIFFIN: "Persistent Rumours". Empire, Gender and "the Savage" in Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four and Lee Langley's Persistent Rumours. Jacqueline BARDOLPH: Celebration of Life, Celebration of Language. Two Short Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo and Patricia Grace. Britta OLINDER: Gender-Power Issues in Indian Terms. Shashi Deshpande's Fiction. Landeg WHITE: Massamba with the Brilliant Flowers (i.m. Luiza Drennon, 1924-91); The Three Graces; Update from a Distant Friend (Zomba to Blantyre, after Jan Kees Van Donge). Susan BALLYN: The Grass Spider; Nothing is; Rooms. Anne WALMSLEY: Bridges of Sleep. Continental and Island Inheritance in the Visual Arts of Guyana. Mark WILLIAMS: "Urban Archipelagoes". Wilson Harris and the Post-Colonial Novel. Mark McWATT: The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer. Exile and the Trans-Cultural Imagination in Guyanese Novelists. Sue THOMAS: Conflicted Textual Affiliations. Jean Rhys's "The Insect" and "Heat". Tim CRIBB: From Aran to St Lucia. Literary Modernism and the Folk Play. Bénédicte LEDENT: Is Counter-Discursive Criticism Obsolescent? Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground. Louis JAMES: Eating the Dead. A Note on Cooking in Caribbean Literature. Edward BAUGH: You ever notice how. Velma POLLARD: Name. Arthur DRAYTON: Homage to Miss Vincy. Geert LERNOUT: "What Shall We Do With The Shrunken Tailor?" Salman Rushdie's Intertextuality. Gerhard STILZ: Return to the Jungle? Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes in Indian-English Literature. D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Quartet: The Other Tagore. Shirley GEOK-LIN LIM: Crossroads and Crossed Words. Kirpal SINGH: Cosmopolitanism in Singaporean Literature in English. Satendra NANDAN: Shooting the Deer, Shimla. Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER: taj view; at dhvanyaloka; delhi; dawn; pocomaniacs. Geoff DAVIS: The Intoxicated Octopus and the Garlic-Kissed Prawn. On South African Bibliography. Bernth LINDFORS: Towards an Achebe Iconography. Itala VIVAN: Nuruddin Farah's Beautiful Mat and its Italian Plot. Coral Ann HOWELLS: Taking Risks. Alice Munro's "The Jack Randa Hotel". Martin LEER: The Map of the Story. Drawn from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Bernard HICKEY: Opting for Newfoundland. Margaret Duley's Cold Pastoral. Konrad GROSS: The Voyageurs. Images of Canada's Archetypal Frontiersmen. Chris TIFFIN: Pacific Writing and the Diminishing Islands. W.H. NEW: A Prologue to Mansfield's Epilogues. Jean-Pierre DURIX: Patricia Grace's Potiki or the Trickster behind the Scenes. Robert SELLICK: Alex Miller: Games and Puzzles. Russell McDOUGALL: George Darrell's The Sunny South. Cultural Allegory and Racial Ideology. Veronica BRADY: "This world, the next world, and Australia". Jennifer STRAUSS: Inscribing the Tree in the Poetry of Judith Wright. Gareth GRIFFITHS: Representing Difference in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung. Graham HUGGAN: Peter Carey's Fiction and the Incriminated Reader. Pat DOBREZ: The Bundanon Gift. Uses of the Feudal in Contemporary Australia. Gordon COLLIER: Commas, Caps, and Corrections. Notes Towards a Standard Edition of Patrick White's The Solid Mandala.