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New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing
Critical and Creative Contours
Series: - Cross/Cultures, Volume: 189
New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg OâBrien).
The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred DâAguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting Kingâs pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.
The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred DâAguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting Kingâs pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.
JANET WILSON is Professor of English and Postcolonial Studies at the University of Northampton. She has published widely on New Zealand and Australian literature, including diaspora writers Katherine Mansfield, Fleur Adcock and Dan Davin. She coedits Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
CHRIS RINGROSE is Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. He has written on postcolonial authors like Ben Okri and Kazuo Ishiguro, is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and a translator, prize winning poet and short story writer.
CHRIS RINGROSE is Adjunct Associate Professor at Monash University, Australia. He has written on postcolonial authors like Ben Okri and Kazuo Ishiguro, is co-editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing, and a translator, prize winning poet and short story writer.
JANET WI LSON AND CHRIS RINGROSE: Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
THE CARIBBEAN
J. MICHAEL DASH: A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies
ROBERT HAMNER: The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
KATHLEEN GYSSELS: From âThe Rivers of Babylonâ to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition
JOHN T. GILMORE : The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados
ENGLAND
BÃNÃDICTE LEDENT: The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smithâs White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levyâs Small Island (2004)
GEETHA GANAPATHY DORE: A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatjeâs The Catâs Table
SOUTH-EAST ASIA
LAETITIA ZECCHINI: âA Message in a Bottleâ: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA: JejuriâBandraâJejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar
MARTA DVOÅÃK: Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desaiâs Negotiation of Cultural Gaps
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE:Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales
NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
JEANâPI ERRE DURIX: Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendtâs The Adventures of Vela
GORDON COLLIER: Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory OâBrien
GEOFFREY V. DAVISâThe Biggest Adventureâ: Indigenous People and White Menâs Wars
CREATIVE WRITING
DAVID DABYDEEN: Chinese Mothers
KEKI N. DARUWALLA: Cabral
ADIL JUSSAWALLA: Memoirs: for Bruce
JEET THAYIL: The Book of Bruce
OLIVE SENIOR: Fabulous Eyelids
FRED DâAGUIAR: For Bruce (& Adèle)
TABISH KHAIR: Past Dawn
ANAND THAKORE: Puppetâs Life Ends on String
JANE BHANDARI: A Sheet Like Snow
MANOHAR SHETTY: Threshold
SMITA AGRAWAL: I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook)
JOHN HAYNES: Back
KEVIN IRELAND: A Mute Biography
SHANTA ACHARYA: Wonder of the Age
KARTHIKA NAIR: Habits: Remnants
ALAMGIR HASHMI: They Say, They Never Wrote
SUSAN VISVANATHAN: Conch
ESSAYS IN CRITICISM
THE CARIBBEAN
J. MICHAEL DASH: A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies
ROBERT HAMNER: The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott
KATHLEEN GYSSELS: From âThe Rivers of Babylonâ to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition
JOHN T. GILMORE : The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados
ENGLAND
BÃNÃDICTE LEDENT: The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smithâs White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levyâs Small Island (2004)
GEETHA GANAPATHY DORE: A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatjeâs The Catâs Table
SOUTH-EAST ASIA
LAETITIA ZECCHINI: âA Message in a Bottleâ: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French
ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA: JejuriâBandraâJejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar
MARTA DVOÅÃK: Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desaiâs Negotiation of Cultural Gaps
MUNEEZA SHAMSIE:Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales
NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
JEANâPI ERRE DURIX: Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendtâs The Adventures of Vela
GORDON COLLIER: Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory OâBrien
GEOFFREY V. DAVISâThe Biggest Adventureâ: Indigenous People and White Menâs Wars
CREATIVE WRITING
DAVID DABYDEEN: Chinese Mothers
KEKI N. DARUWALLA: Cabral
ADIL JUSSAWALLA: Memoirs: for Bruce
JEET THAYIL: The Book of Bruce
OLIVE SENIOR: Fabulous Eyelids
FRED DâAGUIAR: For Bruce (& Adèle)
TABISH KHAIR: Past Dawn
ANAND THAKORE: Puppetâs Life Ends on String
JANE BHANDARI: A Sheet Like Snow
MANOHAR SHETTY: Threshold
SMITA AGRAWAL: I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook)
JOHN HAYNES: Back
KEVIN IRELAND: A Mute Biography
SHANTA ACHARYA: Wonder of the Age
KARTHIKA NAIR: Habits: Remnants
ALAMGIR HASHMI: They Say, They Never Wrote
SUSAN VISVANATHAN: Conch
All interested in criticism on postcolonial writing from the Caribbean, New Zealand, Canada and the Pacific, and British diaspora writing, and all who enjoy reading postcolonial poetry and prose.