Comparing Postcolonial Literatures Dislocations

by Bery, Ashok; Murray, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780312227814
• ISBN10: 0312227817
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-05-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Bringing together a range of critics working in the Hispanic and francophone as well as anglophone postcolonial regions, this book aims to dislocate some of the commonly accepted cultural, linguistic and geographical boundaries that have previously informed postcolonial studies. The book aims in particular to reconsider the role of the British Isles in this field and to bridge the gap between postcolonial literatures in English and those written in other languages.

Author Biography

Ashok Bery and Patricia Murray are both Senior Lecturers in English at the University of North London.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Notes on the Contributors	viii
Introduction	1	(20)
Ashok Bery
Patricia Murray
Part I: On the Border
Postcolonial Studies and Ireland	21	(10)
C. L. Innes
Crossing the Hyphen of History: the Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness	31	(12)
Willy Maley
The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border	43	(16)
Gerry Smyth
Part II: Diasporas
Inside-Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England	59	(11)
Aidan Arrowsmith
States of Dislocation: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist	70	(11)
Liam Harte
Lance Pettitt
`It's a Free Country': Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis	81	(12)
Geraldine Stoneham
I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US	93	(14)
Nara Araujo
Part III: Internalized Exiles
Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis	107	(15)
David Marriott
Nationalism's Brandings: Women's Bodies and Narratives of the Partition	122	(12)
Sujala Singh
Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers	134	(10)
Keith Richards
Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post)coloniality and Collaborative (Auto)biography	144	(15)
Susan Forsyth
`The Limits of Goodwill': the Values and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally's `Aboriginal' Novels	159	(18)
Denise Vernon
Part IV: Versions of Hybridity
The Trickster at the Border: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean	177	(16)
Patricia Murray
Between Speech and Writing: `La nouvelle litterature antillaise'?	193	(12)
Sam Haigh
Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldana	205	(14)
Catherine Davies
Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain	219	(10)
John Thieme
`Canvas of Blood': Okigbo's African Modernism	229	(23)
David Richards
Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies	240	(12)
Wilson Harris
Notes	252	(28)
Index	280