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: European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies. Conference
• TeilnehmendeR: Borg Barthet, Stella.
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; 118.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 p.)
• Notes: Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in March 2005 in Sliema, Malta.
• 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 mémoire, 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 Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah /; 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 Québécité /; Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1282882147; 9786612882142; 9042027673
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Stella Borg Barthet.

The present volume contains general essays on: unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe’s wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women’s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42 ; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell–Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder–Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast–Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt–William.