Chewing over the West
Subtitle: occidental narratives in non-Western readings
By: edited by Doris Jedamski
Series: Cross-cultures: readings in the post/colonial literatures in English -- 119; Cross/cultures -- 119.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9789042027831; 9789042027848
Subjects: Colonies in literature; Postcolonialism in literature; Literatures; History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Theme and identity in postcolonial Arabic writing  -- Rasheed El-Elany; title: Moving pictures: Western Marxism and vernacular literature in colonial Indonesia  -- Keith Foulcher; title: Mother tongues with a Western accent: indigenous negotiations with English language and narratives in Kenyan art  -- Evan Mwangi; title: The development of modern Burmese theatre and literature under Western influence  -- U Win Pe (Maung Swan Yi); title: Writing against, writing with: the case of Algerian literature  -- Amina Azza-Bekkat; title: The use of T. S. Eliot's literary traditions in contemporary Arabic poetry  -- Saddik M. Gohar; title: War and ideology: Erich Maria Remarque's All quiet on the Western Front and the Vietnamese Novel without a Name by Duong Thu Huong  -- Ursula Lies; title: Under Indian eyes: characterization and dialogism in modern Hindi fiction  -- Thomas de Bruijn; title: In search of a new image: an Indian Madame Bovary? -- Guzel V. Strelkova; title: Chewing over ethnographic models: Berber writings from Algeria  -- Daniela Merolla; title: The Naya Drama in India: rediscovering the self in the Western mirror  -- Anna Suvorova; title: Hybridity in Komedi Stamboul  -- Matthew Isaac Cohen; title: "Elementary, my dear Wat": influence and imitation in the early crime fiction of 'Late-Victorian' Siam  -- Rachel Harrison; title: The vanishing-act of Sherlock Holmes and Indonesia's national awakening -- Doris Jedamski.