Writers in east-west encounter
Subtitle: new cultural bearings
By: edited by Guy Amirthanayagam.
Contributors: Amirthanayagam, Guy.
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 1982
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
Subjects: Literature, Comparative -- Congresses; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses
Notes: Papers presented at a colloquium held in 1977 at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Buddhist meditation and poetic spontaneity / Allen Ginsberg; title: My fiction and the aboriginal / Tom Keneally; title: The centre and the periphery / Kenzaburo Ōe; title: Cross-currents / Wole Soyinka; title: Whoring after English gods / R. Parthasarathy; title: Departures and returns / Janet Frame; title: The man-eater of Malgudi / R.K. Narayan; title: The meeting of language and literature and the Indian example / William Walsh; title: Parables and commonplaces / A.K. Ramanujan; title: Pontifex and scapegoat / Guy Amirthanayagam; title: Towards a new Oceania / Albert Wendt.