Shared waters : soundings in postcolonial literatures / / edited by Stella Borg Barthet.

• Superior document: Cross cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 118
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Borg Barthet, Stella.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 118.
• Physical Description: xiii, 412 p.
• Other title: Projecting postcolonialism --; Exchanging, sharing our places /; Exclusion and the intellectuals : some thoughts on unequal academic exchange between Africa and the West /; What lies ahead : consolidation and diversity in postcolonial studies /; Beyond revolution : re-writing violence and the future of postcolonial studies /; War and remembrance --; Territorial terrors : colonial spaces and postcolonial revisions : some basic concepts /; In the enemy's camp : women representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars /; Shared place and maimed bodies : flesh of the past, soul of the future (or vice-versa) in Once were warriors /; Historical trauma, lieu de memoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand /; Writing women --; Becoming a writer in Morocco /; Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghadah al-Samman and Sahar Khalifah /; Going through twentieth-century Malta in the company of Francis Ebejer's heroines /; Aesthetic (dis)continuities in the African gendered space : the example of younger Nigerian women's writing /; Smells, skins, and spices : Indian spice shops as gendered diasporic spaces in the novels of Indian women writers of the diaspora /; Generational change : women and writing in the novels of Thea Astley /; Islands and the sea --; Poems from Malta /; Currents and swells in Maltese identity : representations of community in Maltese poetry in English since independence /; Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" /; The sea and the erosion of cultural identity in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef /; The otherless other, or The anonymity of water : unmapping Ondaatje's "Sand sea" self in Minghella's The English patient /; The sea and the changing nature of cultural identity /; Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993) /; "They are us" : interview with Caryl Phillips /; Shared spaces --; Sharing media spaces : The Kumars at No. 42 /; Writing second-generation migrant identity in Meera Syal's fiction /; Is "Sharing places" viable in a postmodern world order? : Salman Rushdie's Novel The ground beneath her feet /; Sharing nation space : representations of India /; Exploring boundaries : the north in western Canadian writing /; Sharing Quebec : Lorena Gale's Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke's Quebecite /; Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9789042027664 (acidfree paper); 9042027665
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Stella Borg Barthet.