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Title

Comparing postcolonial literatures : dislocations / edited by Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Bery, Ashok, 1951-
• Murray, Patricia, 1965-

Description

xi, 283 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Comparative literature > Themes, motives > Congresses
• Decolonization in literature > Congresses
• Postcolonialism > Congresses

Note

• Chiefly papers presented at a conference.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-279) and index.

Contents

Postcolonial studies and Ireland / C.L. Innes -- Crossing the hyphen of history : the Scottish borders of Anglo-Irishness / Willy Maley -- The politics of hybridity : some problems with crossing the border / Gerry Smyth -- Inside-out : literature, cultural identity and Irish migration to England / Aidan Arrowsmith -- States of dislocation : William Trevor's Felicia's journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist / Liam Harte and Lance Pettitt -- "It's a free country" : visions of hybridity in the metropolis / Geraldine Stoneham -- I came all the way from Cuba so I could speak like this? Cuban and Cubanamerican literatures in the US / Nara Araújo -- Border anxieties : race and psychoanalysis / David Marriott -- Nationalism's brandings : women's bodies and narratives of the partition / Sujala Singh -- Internalized exiles : three Bolivian writers / Keith Richards -- Writing other lives : Native American (post)coloniality and collaborative (auto)biography / Susan Forsyth -- "The limits of goodwill" : the values and dangers of revisionism in Keneally's "aboriginal" novels / Denise Vernon -- The trickster at the border : cross-cultural dialogues in the Caribbean / Patricia Murray --Between speech and writing : "la nouvelle littérature antillaise"? / Sam Haigh -- Hybrid texts : family, state, and empire in a poem by Black Cuban poet Excilia Saldaña / Catherine Davies -- Beyond Manicheism : Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain / John Thieme -- "Canvas of blood" : Okigbo's African modernism / David Richards -- Closing statement : apprenticeship to the furies / Wilson Harris.

Call Number

JFD 00-8901

ISBN

0312227817

LCCN

99043179

OCLC

42027522

Title

Comparing postcolonial literatures : dislocations / edited by Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray.

Imprint

Houndmills, Basingstoke : Macmillan Press ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-279) and index.

Added Author

Bery, Ashok, 1951-

Murray, Patricia, 1965-

Research Call Number

JFD 00-8901