Comparing postcolonial literatures
Subtitle: dislocations
By: edited by Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray.
Contributors: Bery, Ashok, 1951-; Murray, Patricia, 1965-
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 283
Subjects: Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives -- Congresses; Decolonization in literature -- Congresses; Postcolonialism -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-279) and index.
Chiefly papers presented at a conference.
Table of contents: title: Postcolonial studies and Ireland / C.L. Innes; title: Crossing the hyphen of history / Willy Maley; title: The politics of hybridity / Gerry Smyth; title: Inside-out, literature, cultural identity, and Irish migration to England / Aidan Arrowsmith; title: States of dislocation,  William Trevor's Felicia's journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist / Liam Harte and Lance Pettitt; title: It's a free country / Geraldine Stoneham; title: I came all the way from Cuba so I could speak like this? / Nara Araújo; title: Border anxieties, race and psychoanalysis / David Marriott; title: Nationalism's brandings, women's bodies and narratives of the partition / Sujala Singh; title: Internalized exiles, three Bolivian writers / Keith Richards; title: Writing other lives,  nNtive American (post)coloniality and collaborative (auto)biography / Susan Forsyth; title: "The limits of goodwill," the values and dangers of revisionism in Keneally's "aboriginal" novels / Denise Vernon; title: The trickster at the border, cross-cultural dialogues in the Caribbean / Patricia Murray; title: Between speech and writing,  "la nouvelle littérature antillaise?" / Sam Haigh; title: Hybrid texts, family, state, and empire in a poem by black Cuban poet Excilia Saldaña / Catherine Davies; title: Beyond Manicheism, Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain / John Thieme; title: "Canvas of blood,"  Okigbo's African modernism / David Richards; title: Closing statement, apprenticeship to the furies / Wilson Harris.