Postcolonial gateways and walls : under construction / edited by Daria Tunca, Janet Wilson
- Bib ID:
- 7378390
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2017]
- ©2017
- xviii, 347 pages ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004337671 (hardback)
- 9004337679
- Invalid ISBN:
- 9789004337688 (ebook)
- Series:
- Cross/cultures ; v.195. 0924-1426
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: gateways and walls, or the power and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors / Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson
- I. Gateways and walls: between east and west
- Clothing the borders: dress as a signifier in colonial and post-colonial space / Gareth Griffiths
- "As rare as rubies": did Salman Rushdie invent Turkish American-literature? / Elena Furlanetto
- The Bosphorus syndrome / Gerhard Stilz
- Geography fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh / Padmini Mongia
- The concomitant spaces of territory and writing: crossing cultural divides / Marta Dvořák
- II. Under construction: nations and cultures
- Towards an Australian philosophy: constructive appropriation of enlightenment thinking in Murray Bail's The Pages / Marie Herbillon
- Image-i-nation: Africa/nation, identity, and the nation(s) within / Bronwyn Mills
- Refugees and three short stories from Sri Lanka / Simran Chadha
- Gateway to the unknowable: the Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès / John C. Hawley
- Postcolonial literature in the time of world literature / Deepika Marya
- III. The border: wall or gateway?
- "Die Mauer is no joke!": the Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueen's Berlin Diary and in the works of Kapka Kassabova / Claudia Duppé
- The wall as signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's works / Carmen Concilio
- Enclosed: nature. Carol Shields' textual mazes / Vera Alexander
- An ethics of mourning: loss and transnational dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh / Golnar Nabizadeh
- IV. Gendered gateways and walls
- The mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street / Elisabeth Bekers
- Desexing the crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices / Devon Campbell-Hall
- The burden of possessions: a postcolonial reading of letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi / M. J. Daymond
- Gendered gateways: Australian surfing and the construction of masculinities in Tim Winton's Breath / Sissy Helff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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