Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World (ASNEL Papers 9.2; Cross/Cultures 79) (Asnel Papers, 79)

ISBN: 9042017368

Author: Geoffrey V. Davis

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About the Author 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 Lige. Product Description 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 void. womens 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.C. 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 CRITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS BY Ken Arvidson; Thomas Brckner; 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 Kunír; Chantal Kwast-Greff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent OSullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rnning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schrder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine Vogt-William; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold. CREATIVE WRITING BY Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol THE EDITORS: 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 Lige.