Readings of the Particular
The Postcolonial in the Postnational
Published on 1. January 2007
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-90-420-2163-1 (ISBN)
Description
The present collection aims at throwing light on transculturality and the identities and masks that people put on, in writing as much as in life, in an age of global levelling and the struggle for a particular place in a postcolonial world. Topics covered include: North African identity in France; cultural citizenship and the Asian diaspora; novels of beur self-identity by Maghrebi immigrants in France; Scottish fiction, Britain and Empire; memory, amnesia, and the re-invention of the past in South Africa, the Caribbean and elsewhere; borders, necrophilia and history in Southern African fiction; encodings of female control; spectating in black documentary cinema; theatre, performance, and the Western presence in Africa; masks, history, transtextuality, and other aspects of Irish poetry and drama; the masking and unmasking of identity in the African-American novel; violence and Titus Andronicus in black Nova Scotian poetry; notions of the national and of indigeneity in contemporary Canadian drama; Native Canadians, space, and the city. Authors and artists treated include: William Boyd; Andre Brink; George Elliott Clarke; David Dabydeen; Ralph Ellison; Bessie Head; Seamus Heaney; Tomson Highway; Isaac Julien; Daniel David Moses; Paul Muldoon; Albert Murray; Jean Rhys; Sir Walter Scott; Robert Louis Stevenson; Richard Wright; and W.B. Yeats.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-2163-1 (9789042021631)
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ANNE HOLDEN RONNING has recently retired as associate professor of English literature at the University of Bergen. She has published extensively on women's literature and postcolonial writing, especially from Australia and New Zealand.
LENE JOHANNESSEN is associate professor in the English Department, University of Bergen. Her research interests and fields of publication are American, Chicano, and postcolonial literatures and cultures, theories of language, and the politics and theories of identity.
CONTRIBUTORS: Charles I. Armstrong, Kristina Aurylaite, David Bell, Erik Falk, Alan Freeman, Asbjorn Gronstad, Ute Kauer, Susan Knutson, Evelyn Lutwama, Jacquelynne Modeste, Ruben Moi, Anne Nothof, Wenche Ommundsen, Geoff Page, Ulla Rahbek, Priscilla Ringrose, Johan Schminaski.
LENE JOHANNESSEN is associate professor in the English Department, University of Bergen. Her research interests and fields of publication are American, Chicano, and postcolonial literatures and cultures, theories of language, and the politics and theories of identity.
CONTRIBUTORS: Charles I. Armstrong, Kristina Aurylaite, David Bell, Erik Falk, Alan Freeman, Asbjorn Gronstad, Ute Kauer, Susan Knutson, Evelyn Lutwama, Jacquelynne Modeste, Ruben Moi, Anne Nothof, Wenche Ommundsen, Geoff Page, Ulla Rahbek, Priscilla Ringrose, Johan Schminaski.
Content
Introduction
PRELUDE
Wenche OMMUNDSEN: Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship and the Imagined Communities of Diaspora; A Fiction
I NOVELS AND THEIR BORDERS
Priscilla RINGROSE: 'Beur' Narratives of Self-Identity: Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
Alan FREEMAN: Allegories of Ambivalence: Scottish Fiction, Britain and Empire
Ute KAUER: The Need to Storify: Re-inventing the Past in Andre Brink's Novels
Johan SCHIMANSKI: The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head's "The Wind and a Boy"
David BELL: The Intimate Presence of Death in the Novels of Zakes Mda: Necrophilic Worlds and Traditional Belief
Ulla RAHBEK: Controlling Jean Rhys's Story "On Not Shooting Sitting Birds"
II PERFORMING POSSIBILITIES
Asbiorn GRONSTAD: Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World
Evelyn LUTWAMA: Western Theatrical Performance in Africa and Gender Implications
Anne NOTHOF: Imagining a Nation: The Necessity of Producing Canadian Drama
Susan KNUTSON: The Mask of Aaron: "Tall screams reared out of the Three Mile Plains" - Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and George Elliott Clarke's Black Acadian Tragedy Execution Poems:
Kristina AURYLAITE: Crossing the Boundary, Donning a Mask: Spatial Rules and Identity in Daniel David Moses' and Tomson Highway's Plays
III POETIC SITES OF INTERTEXTUALITY
Geoff PAGE: I Think I Could Turn Awhile
Erik FALK: How to Really Forget: David Dabydeen's "Creative Amnesia"
Charles ARMSTRONG: Many Masks, Big Houses: Yeats and the Construction of an Irish Identity
Ruben MOI: Transtextual Conceptualizations of Northern Ireland: Paul Muldoon vs Seamus Heaney
Jacquelynne MODESTE : (Un)Masking Possibilities: Bigger Thomas, Invisible Man, and Scooter
Notes on Contributors
Index
PRELUDE
Wenche OMMUNDSEN: Have Culture, Will Travel: Cultural Citizenship and the Imagined Communities of Diaspora; A Fiction
I NOVELS AND THEIR BORDERS
Priscilla RINGROSE: 'Beur' Narratives of Self-Identity: Beyond Boundaries and Binaries
Alan FREEMAN: Allegories of Ambivalence: Scottish Fiction, Britain and Empire
Ute KAUER: The Need to Storify: Re-inventing the Past in Andre Brink's Novels
Johan SCHIMANSKI: The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head's "The Wind and a Boy"
David BELL: The Intimate Presence of Death in the Novels of Zakes Mda: Necrophilic Worlds and Traditional Belief
Ulla RAHBEK: Controlling Jean Rhys's Story "On Not Shooting Sitting Birds"
II PERFORMING POSSIBILITIES
Asbiorn GRONSTAD: Isaac Julien's Looking For Langston and the Limits of the Visible World
Evelyn LUTWAMA: Western Theatrical Performance in Africa and Gender Implications
Anne NOTHOF: Imagining a Nation: The Necessity of Producing Canadian Drama
Susan KNUTSON: The Mask of Aaron: "Tall screams reared out of the Three Mile Plains" - Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and George Elliott Clarke's Black Acadian Tragedy Execution Poems:
Kristina AURYLAITE: Crossing the Boundary, Donning a Mask: Spatial Rules and Identity in Daniel David Moses' and Tomson Highway's Plays
III POETIC SITES OF INTERTEXTUALITY
Geoff PAGE: I Think I Could Turn Awhile
Erik FALK: How to Really Forget: David Dabydeen's "Creative Amnesia"
Charles ARMSTRONG: Many Masks, Big Houses: Yeats and the Construction of an Irish Identity
Ruben MOI: Transtextual Conceptualizations of Northern Ireland: Paul Muldoon vs Seamus Heaney
Jacquelynne MODESTE : (Un)Masking Possibilities: Bigger Thomas, Invisible Man, and Scooter
Notes on Contributors
Index