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The present volume contains general essays on: the relevance of âCommonwealthâ literature; the treatment of Dalits in literature and culture; the teaching of African literature in the UK; âsharing placesâ and Drum magazine in South Africa; black British book covers as primers for cultural contact; Christianity, imperialism, and conversion; Orang Pendek and Papuans in colonial Indonesia; Carnival and drama in the anglophone Caribbean; issues of choice between the Maltese language and Its Others; and patterns of interaction between married couples in Malta. As well as these, there are essays providing close readings of works by the following authors: Chinua Achebe, André Aciman, Diran Adebayo, Monica Ali, Edward Atiyah, Margaret Atwood, Murray Bail, Peter Carey, Amit Chaudhuri, Austin Clarke, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Amitav Ghosh, Nadine Gordimer, Antjie Krog, Hanif Kureishi, Naguib Mahfouz, David Malouf, V.S. Naipaul, Michael Ondaatje, Tayeb Salih, Zadie Smith, Ahdaf Soueif, Yvonne Vera.
Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne HanquartâTurner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Genâichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen KingâAribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes LópezâRopero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción MengibarâRico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte ScheerâSchaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.
Contributors: Jogamaya Bayer, Katrin Berndt, Sabrina Brancato, Monica Bungaro, Judith Lütge Coulli, Robert Cribb, Natasha Distiller, Evelyne HanquartâTurner, Marie Herbillon, Tuomas Huttunen, Genâichiro Itakura, Jacqueline Jondot, Karen KingâAribisala, Ursula Kluwick, Dorothy Lane, Ben Lebdai, Lourdes LópezâRopero, Amin Malak, Daniel Massa, Concepción MengibarâRico, Susanne Reichl, Brigitte ScheerâSchaezler, Lydia Sciriha, Jamie S. Scott, Andrea Strolz, Peter O. Stummer, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Clare Thake Vassallo.
Stella Borg Barthet is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta. She is the author of papers and book chapters, mostly on Maltese, Australian, and African fiction. Her current research interests include North African and African-American writing.
Introduction and Acknowledgements
Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth
Daniel Massa: The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature
Peter O. Stummer: The Commitment Against Exclusion
Monica Bungaro: The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications
Borders and Crossings
Jogamaya Bayer: Crossing the Borders in Monica Aliâs Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaulâs Half a Life
Sabrina Brancato: Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black
Genâichiro Itakura: Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smithâs The Autograph Man
Lourdes LópezâRopero : The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarkeâs Pigtails ân Breadfruit
Natasha Distiller: âThe Most Motley Crewe in All the Worldâ: Sharing Places in South Africa
Ben Lebdai: Nadine Gordimerâs The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Todayâs World
Perception, Space, Time
Susanne Reichl: Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact
Katrin Berndt: The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Veraâs Butterfly Burning
Evelyne HanquartâTurner: Amit Chaudhuriâs Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes
Marie Herbillon: Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bailâs Holdenâs Performance
Brigitte ScheerâSchaezler: In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Acimanâs Essays
Religion and the Sacred
Dorothy Lane: Dominion from Sea to Sea: Christianity, Imperialism, and the Trope of Conversion
Karen KingâAribisala: Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebeâs Things Fall Apart
Jamie S. Scott: âYouâre Not Only Drunk But Madâ: The Ironies of Islam in Tayeb Salihâs Season of Migration to the North
History and Narrative
Robert Cribb: Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia
Amin Malak: Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations? The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif
Jacqueline Jondot: A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back? Edward Atiyahâs The Eagle Flies from the East
Ursula Kluwick: The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatjeâs Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement
Andrea Strolz: âTrue Storiesâ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwoodâs The Blind Assassin
Cynthia vanden Driesen: Rewriting Europe: Careyâs Jack Maggs and Maloufâs Remembering Babylon
Concepción MengÃbarâRico: The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language and Translation
Tuomas Huttunen: Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh
Clare Thake Vassallo: Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others
Lydia Sciriha: Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles? Patterns of Interaction Between Married Couples in Malta
Judith Lütge Coullie: Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue
Notes on Contributors
Index
Towards a Postcolonial Commonwealth
Daniel Massa: The Relevance of Commonwealth Literature
Peter O. Stummer: The Commitment Against Exclusion
Monica Bungaro: The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical Implications
Borders and Crossings
Jogamaya Bayer: Crossing the Borders in Monica Aliâs Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaulâs Half a Life
Sabrina Brancato: Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of Black
Genâichiro Itakura: Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smithâs The Autograph Man
Lourdes LópezâRopero : The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarkeâs Pigtails ân Breadfruit
Natasha Distiller: âThe Most Motley Crewe in All the Worldâ: Sharing Places in South Africa
Ben Lebdai: Nadine Gordimerâs The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Todayâs World
Perception, Space, Time
Susanne Reichl: Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural Contact
Katrin Berndt: The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Veraâs Butterfly Burning
Evelyne HanquartâTurner: Amit Chaudhuriâs Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the Chronotopes
Marie Herbillon: Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bailâs Holdenâs Performance
Brigitte ScheerâSchaezler: In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Acimanâs Essays
Religion and the Sacred
Dorothy Lane: Dominion from Sea to Sea: Christianity, Imperialism, and the Trope of Conversion
Karen KingâAribisala: Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebeâs Things Fall Apart
Jamie S. Scott: âYouâre Not Only Drunk But Madâ: The Ironies of Islam in Tayeb Salihâs Season of Migration to the North
History and Narrative
Robert Cribb: Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial Indonesia
Amin Malak: Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations? The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf Soueif
Jacqueline Jondot: A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back? Edward Atiyahâs The Eagle Flies from the East
Ursula Kluwick: The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatjeâs Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political Engagement
Andrea Strolz: âTrue Storiesâ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwoodâs The Blind Assassin
Cynthia vanden Driesen: Rewriting Europe: Careyâs Jack Maggs and Maloufâs Remembering Babylon
Concepción MengÃbarâRico: The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone Caribbean
Language and Translation
Tuomas Huttunen: Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav Ghosh
Clare Thake Vassallo: Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its Others
Lydia Sciriha: Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles? Patterns of Interaction Between Married Couples in Malta
Judith Lütge Coullie: Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of Tongue
Notes on Contributors
Index