Literary location and dislocation of myth in the post/colonial anglophone world / / edited by Andre Dodeman, Elodie Raimbault.
The English-speaking world today is so diverse that readers need a gateway to its many postcolonial narratives and art forms. This collection of essays examines this diver¬sity and what brings so many different cul¬tures together. Whether Indian, Canadian, Australasian or Zimbabwean, the stories dis...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures, Volume 202 |
|---|---|
| : | |
| TeilnehmendeR: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2018. ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
Volume 202. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) :; illustrations. |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / André Dodeman and Élodie Raimbault
- Introduction / André Dodeman and Élodie Raimbault
- Woman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions / Biljana Ðorić–Francuski
- ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005) / Julie Beluau
- Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early Photographs / Marie–Christine Blin
- How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild West / Dúnlaith Bird
- The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and Fiction / Anne le Guellec–Minel
- Migrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black Atlantic / Winfried Siemerling
- Reworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe) / Elara Bertho
- Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897) / Jaine Chemmachery
- Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the Equator / Frédéric Dumas
- Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer Myth / Christine Vandamme
- “In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of Song / Daniel Karlin
- Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide / Sabine Lauret–Taft
- Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of Pi / Françoise Storey and Jeff Storey
- Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera, and the bone people by Keri Hulme / Laura Singeot
- Notes on Contributors and Editors / André Dodeman and Élodie Raimbault
- Index / André Dodeman and Élodie Raimbault.