Postcolonizing the Commonwealth

Studies in Literature and Culture
Herausgeber: Smith, Rowland

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Produktbeschreibung

Women 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780889203587
• ISBN-10: 088920358X
• Artikelnr.: 28973354

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents for
Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture, edited
by Rowland Smith
Contributors
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 Slernon
5. Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Métissage 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 1850s: 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
Don't Lie 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: Braithwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie, and the Quest for
Authenticity Mac Fenwick
14. Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry J. Edward
Chamberlin
Index
Contributors
Jacqueline Bardolph, the former Dean of Arts at the University of Nice,
died in 1999.
Edward Baugh is a member of the Department of Literatures in English at the
University of the West Indies (Mona) and (frequently) its Chair.
J. Edward Chamberlin is a member of the English Department at the
University of Toronto.
Cherry Clayton has taught at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg
and at the University of Guelph.
Margaret Daymond is a member of the English Department at the University of
Natal, Durban.
Mac Fenwick is a graduate student of English at Queen's University.
Johan U. Jacobs is Head of the School of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of
Human Sciences at the University of Natal, Durban.
Alan Lawson is Deputy Director of the Graduate School and Dean of
Postgraduate Students at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
Laura Moss is a member of the English Department at the University of
Manitoba.
Nima Naghibi is a graduate student of English at the University of Alberta.
Sheila Roberts is a member of the English Department at the University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
Stephen Slemon is a member of the English Department at the University of
Alberta.
Rowland Smith is the Vice-President: Academic at Wilfrid Laurier
University.
Susan Spearey is a member of the English Department at Brock University.
Cheryl Suzack is a graduate student of English at the University of
Alberta.