Shared waters
Subtitle: soundings in postcolonial literatures
By: edited by Stella Borg Barthet
Series: Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English -- 118; Cross/cultures -- 118.
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Amsterdam; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9789042027664
Subjects: Postcolonialism in literature; Decolonization in literature; Colonies in literature; Postcolonialism; Comparative literature; Themes, motives
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1.; title: Projecting postcolonialism --; title: Exchanging, sharing our places  -- Hoda  Barakat: ; translated by Carmen Depasquale; title: Exclusion and the intellectuals : some thoughts on unequal academic exchange between Africa and the West  -- Brian Crow; title: What lies ahead : consolidation and diversity in postcolonial studies  -- Jesús Varela Zapata; title: Beyond revolution : re-writing violence and the future of postcolonial studies  -- Daphne Grace -- 2.; title: War and remembrance --; title: Territorial terrors : colonial spaces and postcolonial revisions : some basic concepts  -- Gerhard Stilz; title: In the enemy's camp : women representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars  -- Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo; title: Shared place and maimed bodies : flesh of the past, soul of the future (or vice-versa) in Once were warriors  -- Chantal Kwast-Greff; title: Historical trauma, lieu de mémoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand  -- Bärbel Czennia -- 3.; title: Writing women --; title: Becoming a writer in Morocco  -- Leila Abouzeid; title: Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah  -- Kifah Hanna; title: Going through twentieth-century Malta in the company of Francis Ebejer's heroines  -- Bernadette Falzon; title: Aesthetic (dis)continuities in the African gendered space : the example of younger Nigerian women's writing  -- Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju; title: Smells, skins, and spices : Indian spice shops as gendered diasporic spaces in the novels of Indian women writers of the diaspora  -- Christine Vogt-William; title: Generational change : women and writing in the novels of Thea Astley  -- Marueen Lynch Pèrcopo -- 4.; title: Islands and the sea --; title: Poems from Malta  -- Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Maria Grech Ganado, Immanuel Mifsud, Norbert Bugeja; title: Currents and swells in Maltese identity : representations of community in Maltese poetry in English since independence  -- Stella Borg Barthet; title: Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue"  -- Kevin Stephen Magri; title: The sea and the erosion of cultural identity in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef  -- Melanie A. Murray; title: The otherless other, or The anonymity of water : unmapping Ondaatje's "Sand sea" self in Minghella's The English patient  -- Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus; title: The sea and the changing nature of cultural identity  -- Isabel Moutinho; title: Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993)  -- Thomas Bonnici; title: "They are us" : interview with Caryl Phillips  -- Adrian Grima -- 5.; title: Shared spaces --; title: Sharing media spaces : The Kumars at No. 42  -- Hilary P. Dannenberg; title: Writing second-generation migrant identity in Meera Syal's fiction  -- Devon Campbell-Hall; title: Is "Sharing places" viable in a postmodern world order? : Salman Rushdie's Novel The ground beneath her feet  -- Amrit Biswas; title: Sharing nation space : representations of India  -- T. Vijay Kumar; title: Exploring boundaries : the north in western Canadian writing  -- Janne Korkka; title: Sharing Quebec : Lorena Gale's Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke's Québécité  -- Pilar Cuder-Domínguez; title: Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature -- George Elliott Clarke.