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Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a âPostâ-Colonial World 2
Series: - ASNEL Papers, Volume: 79/9.2
- Cross/Cultures, Volume: 79/9.2
This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents.
Topics treated: Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to âvoidâ; womenâs overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England.
Writers discussed: Lalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred Wah.
Contributions by Ken Arvidson; Thomas Brückner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppé; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav KuÅ¡nÃr; Chantal KwastâGreff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent OâSullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rønning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schröder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine VogtâWilliam; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold.
Creative writing by Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol.
Topics treated: Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to âvoidâ; womenâs overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England.
Writers discussed: Lalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred Wah.
Contributions by Ken Arvidson; Thomas Brückner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppé; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav KuÅ¡nÃr; Chantal KwastâGreff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent OâSullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rønning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schröder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine VogtâWilliam; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold.
Creative writing by Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol.
Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen. Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liège.
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Norbert PLATZ et al.: In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924â2000): A Tribute
LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES
Thomas BRÃCKNER: An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol
Mike NICOL: from The Ibis Tapestry
John DOUTHWAITE: Coetzeeâs Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter
Dorothy DRIVER: Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing
John GAMGEE: The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Richard SAMIN: Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies
Brian WORSFOLD: Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamlaâs Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzeeâs Disgrace
André VIOLA: Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s
Clara JOSEPH: The S(p)ecular âConvertâ: A Response to Gauri Viswanathanâs Outside the Fold
Bernard WILSON: Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liangâs London Does Not Belong To Me
Anne H. RÃNNING: Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne
Bernd HERZOGENRATH: The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield
Jaroslav KUÅ NÃR: Multiculturalism in Helen Darvilleâs The Hand That Signed The Paper?
Chantal KWASTâGREFF: Mad âMadâ Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction
Sigrun MEINIG: Myopic Visions: Rodney Hallâs The Second Bridegroom
Katherine GALLAGHER: Jet Lag. My Motherâs Garden. Reckoning
Peter GOLDSWORTHY: Evil Eye. Bed
Syd HARREX: What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? A Loverâs Anguish in King William St. No Title. Aroma Therapy. Screen Images
ABORIGINAL LITERATURE
David CALLAHAN: Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jrâs The Light People
Nicole SCHRÃDER: Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo
Judith DELL PANNY: Inside the Spiral: MÄori Writing in English
MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY
Marc COLAVINCENZO: âFables of the Reconstruction of the Fablesâ: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Gotoâs Chorus of Mushrooms
Robert FRASER: Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatjeâs Toronto and Yvonne Veraâs Bulawayo
Susanne HILF: âHybridize or Disappearâ: Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wahâs Diamond Grill
D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvalaâs Heat and Dust
Obododimma OHA: Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest
for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa
M.Z. MALABA : Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Patonâs Fiction
Jochen PETZOLD: Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hopeâs Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley
Anne FUCHS: The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg
Malcolm PURKEY: Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN
Eleonora CHIAVETTA: In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emechetaâs Been-To Novels
Michael MEYER: The Other Womenâs Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta
Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY: âSearching for a Sense of Selfâ: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie
Stéphanie RAVILLON: An Introduction to Salman Rushdieâs Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses
Cecile SANDTEN: East is West: Hanif Kureishiâs Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastavaâs Metropolitan Yuppies
Christine VOGTâWILLIAM: Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me
Notes on Contributors
Permissions
Norbert PLATZ et al.: In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924â2000): A Tribute
LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES
Thomas BRÃCKNER: An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol
Mike NICOL: from The Ibis Tapestry
John DOUTHWAITE: Coetzeeâs Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter
Dorothy DRIVER: Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing
John GAMGEE: The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Richard SAMIN: Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies
Brian WORSFOLD: Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamlaâs Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzeeâs Disgrace
André VIOLA: Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s
Clara JOSEPH: The S(p)ecular âConvertâ: A Response to Gauri Viswanathanâs Outside the Fold
Bernard WILSON: Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liangâs London Does Not Belong To Me
Anne H. RÃNNING: Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne
Bernd HERZOGENRATH: The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield
Jaroslav KUÅ NÃR: Multiculturalism in Helen Darvilleâs The Hand That Signed The Paper?
Chantal KWASTâGREFF: Mad âMadâ Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction
Sigrun MEINIG: Myopic Visions: Rodney Hallâs The Second Bridegroom
Katherine GALLAGHER: Jet Lag. My Motherâs Garden. Reckoning
Peter GOLDSWORTHY: Evil Eye. Bed
Syd HARREX: What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? A Loverâs Anguish in King William St. No Title. Aroma Therapy. Screen Images
ABORIGINAL LITERATURE
David CALLAHAN: Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jrâs The Light People
Nicole SCHRÃDER: Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo
Judith DELL PANNY: Inside the Spiral: MÄori Writing in English
MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY
Marc COLAVINCENZO: âFables of the Reconstruction of the Fablesâ: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Gotoâs Chorus of Mushrooms
Robert FRASER: Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatjeâs Toronto and Yvonne Veraâs Bulawayo
Susanne HILF: âHybridize or Disappearâ: Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wahâs Diamond Grill
D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvalaâs Heat and Dust
Obododimma OHA: Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest
for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa
M.Z. MALABA : Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Patonâs Fiction
Jochen PETZOLD: Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hopeâs Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley
Anne FUCHS: The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg
Malcolm PURKEY: Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN
Eleonora CHIAVETTA: In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emechetaâs Been-To Novels
Michael MEYER: The Other Womenâs Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta
Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY: âSearching for a Sense of Selfâ: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie
Stéphanie RAVILLON: An Introduction to Salman Rushdieâs Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses
Cecile SANDTEN: East is West: Hanif Kureishiâs Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastavaâs Metropolitan Yuppies
Christine VOGTâWILLIAM: Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me
Notes on Contributors