Postcolonial gateways and walls : under construction Introduction : gateways and walls or the power and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson Clothing the borders : dress as a signifier in colonial and post colonial space Gareth Griffiths As rare as rubies : did Salman Rushdie invent Turkish American literature Elena Furlanetto The Bosphorus syndrome Gerhard Stilz Geography fabulous : Conrad and Ghosh Padmini Mongia The concomitant spaces of territory and writing : crossing cultural divides Marta Dvoérâak Towards an Australian philosophy : constructive appropriation of enlightenment thinking in Murray Bails The Pages Marie Herbillon Image i nation : Africa nation identity and the nation(s) within Bronwyn Mills Refugees and three short stories from Sri Lanka Simran Chadha Gateway to the unknowable : the Kala Pani in Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoos Bâenaráes John C. Hawley Postcolonial literature in the time of world literature Deepika Marya Die Mauer is no joke! : the Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueens Berlin Diary and in the works of Kapka Kassabova Claudia Duppâe The wall as signifier in Ivan Vladislavics works Carmen Concilio Enclosed: nature : Carol Shields textual mazes Vera Alexander An ethics of mourning : loss and transnational dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh Golnar Nabizadeh The mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillipss A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwes On Black Sisters Street Elisabeth Bekers Desexing the crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in Ravinder Randhawas A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakarunis The Mistress of Spices Devon Campbell Hall The burden of possessions : a postcolonial reading of letters from Bessie Head Dora Taylor and Lilian Ngoyi M.J. Daymond Gendered gateways : Australian surfing and the construction of masculinities in Tim Wintons Breath Sissy Helff