Shared Waters
Subtitle: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures
Publisher: Ebsco Publishing
Published: 2009
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9789042027671
Subjects: Postcolonialism; Decolonization in literature; Colonies in literature; Comparative literature, themes, motives
Description: "The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African-Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa, New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women's writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado."--BOOK JACKET.