Flight from Certainty
The Dilemma of Identity and Exile
Published on 1. January 2001
Book
Hardback
262 pages
978-90-420-1595-1 (ISBN)
Description
From the contents: The eighth continent or Living on the edge (Alma Ambert). - Real and imagined worlds: Salman Rushdie as a writer of the Indian diaspora (Nilufer Bharucha). - New Zealand: exile and identity in a transnational age (Ruth Brown). - Katherine Mansfield: the exile of the mind (Vincent O'Sullivan). - Demons and martyrs (Marianne Ackerman). - The English language in South Africa: empowerment and domination (Bernard Cros).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-1595-1 (9789042015951)
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Content
Introduction
I. THE EIGHTH CONTINENT
1. Alma AMBERT: The Eight Continent or Living on the Edge
2. Gillian BOURAS: Memories of Living in-Between
3. Myriam FRANK: A Rediscovery of the Dislocated Self Through Literary Translation
4. Beatrice LAURENT-PARDINI: The Dream of a Victorian Quattrocento : Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Answer to the Dilemma of his Anglo-Italian Identity
II. THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT
5. Nilufer BHARUCHA: Real and Imagined Worlds: Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora
6. Mary CONDE: The Flight from Certainty in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night
7. Soo YOUNG CHON: Hybridity as a Mode of Postcolonial Existence in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
8. Florence D'SOUZA: Becoming oneself in Amit Chaudhuri's Novels
9. Geetha GANAPATHY-DORE: Personal Dilemmas and the Politics of Identity in Jean Arasanayagam's All is Burning
10. Madelena GONZALEZ: "New Ways to be Beautiful", the Search to Escape Identity in The Moor's Last Sigh
11. Corinne LIOTARD: Otherness in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay
III. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
12. Ruth BROWN: New Zealand; Exile and Identity in a Transnational Age
13. Vincent O'SULLIVAN: Katherine Mansfield: The Exile of the Mind
14. Xavier PONS: Wrong Side of the Mirror: Exile in David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlew Creek
15. Jennifer RUTHERFORD: The Colonising Victim; Tim Winton's Irish Conceit
16. Francine TOLRON: Nineteenth-Century Labouring Class Emigrants to New Zealand : Colonists, Colonials, 'New Chums'
17. Russell WEST: "Multiple Exposures": Spatial Dilemma of PostModern Artistic Identity in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital
IV. NORTH AMERICA
18. Marianne ACKERMAN: Demons and Martyrs
19. Sarah LE MENESTREL: Connecting Past to Present: Louisiana Cajuns and their Sense of Belonging to an Acadian Diaspora
20. Priscilla MORIN-OLLIER: Remembering Difference - Living in Two Languages
V. AFRICA
21. Bernard CROS: The English Language in South Africa: Empowerment and Domination
22. Myrtle HOOPER: Homeless, the Motif of Eviction in Two Early South African Narratives
About the Authors
I. THE EIGHTH CONTINENT
1. Alma AMBERT: The Eight Continent or Living on the Edge
2. Gillian BOURAS: Memories of Living in-Between
3. Myriam FRANK: A Rediscovery of the Dislocated Self Through Literary Translation
4. Beatrice LAURENT-PARDINI: The Dream of a Victorian Quattrocento : Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Answer to the Dilemma of his Anglo-Italian Identity
II. THE INDIAN SUB CONTINENT
5. Nilufer BHARUCHA: Real and Imagined Worlds: Salman Rushdie as a Writer of the Indian Diaspora
6. Mary CONDE: The Flight from Certainty in Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night
7. Soo YOUNG CHON: Hybridity as a Mode of Postcolonial Existence in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses
8. Florence D'SOUZA: Becoming oneself in Amit Chaudhuri's Novels
9. Geetha GANAPATHY-DORE: Personal Dilemmas and the Politics of Identity in Jean Arasanayagam's All is Burning
10. Madelena GONZALEZ: "New Ways to be Beautiful", the Search to Escape Identity in The Moor's Last Sigh
11. Corinne LIOTARD: Otherness in Anita Desai's Baumgartner's Bombay
III. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
12. Ruth BROWN: New Zealand; Exile and Identity in a Transnational Age
13. Vincent O'SULLIVAN: Katherine Mansfield: The Exile of the Mind
14. Xavier PONS: Wrong Side of the Mirror: Exile in David Malouf's The Conversations at Curlew Creek
15. Jennifer RUTHERFORD: The Colonising Victim; Tim Winton's Irish Conceit
16. Francine TOLRON: Nineteenth-Century Labouring Class Emigrants to New Zealand : Colonists, Colonials, 'New Chums'
17. Russell WEST: "Multiple Exposures": Spatial Dilemma of PostModern Artistic Identity in the Fiction of Janette Turner Hospital
IV. NORTH AMERICA
18. Marianne ACKERMAN: Demons and Martyrs
19. Sarah LE MENESTREL: Connecting Past to Present: Louisiana Cajuns and their Sense of Belonging to an Acadian Diaspora
20. Priscilla MORIN-OLLIER: Remembering Difference - Living in Two Languages
V. AFRICA
21. Bernard CROS: The English Language in South Africa: Empowerment and Domination
22. Myrtle HOOPER: Homeless, the Motif of Eviction in Two Early South African Narratives
About the Authors