New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing
Publisher: Brill | Rodopi; Brill/Rodopi
Published: Sep 08, 2016
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 32000
ISBN-13: 9789004326415
Description: 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.
Notes: Source title: New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing (Cross/Cultures)