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
• Edition: 1st ed.
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

1. Projecting postcolonialism -- Exchanging, sharing our places / Hoda Barakat: ; translated by Carmen Depasquale -- Exclusion and the intellectuals : some thoughts on unequal academic exchange between Africa and the West / Brian Crow -- What lies ahead : consolidation and diversity in postcolonial studies / Jesus Varela Zapata -- Beyond revolution : re-writing violence and the future of postcolonial studies / Daphne Grace -- 2. War and remembrance -- Territorial terrors : colonial spaces and postcolonial revisions : some basic concepts / Gerhard Stilz -- In the enemy's camp : women representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars / Pauline Dodgson-Katiyo -- Shared place and maimed bodies : flesh of the past, soul of the future (or vice-versa) in Once were warriors / Chantal Kwast-Greff -- Historical trauma, lieu de memoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand / Barbel Czennia -- 3. Writing women -- Becoming a writer in Morocco / Leila Abouzeid -- Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghadah al-Samman and Sahar Khalifah / Kifah Hanna -- Going through twentieth-century Malta in the company of Francis Ebejer's heroines / Bernadette Falzon -- Aesthetic (dis)continuities in the African gendered space : the example of younger Nigerian women's writing / Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju -- Smells, skins, and spices : Indian spice shops as gendered diasporic spaces in the novels of Indian women writers of the diaspora / Christine Vogt-William -- Generational change : women and writing in the novels of Thea Astley / Marueen Lynch Percopo -- 4. Islands and the sea -- Poems from Malta / Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Maria Grech Ganado, Immanuel Mifsud, Norbert Bugeja -- Currents and swells in Maltese identity : representations of community in Maltese poetry in English since independence / Stella Borg Barthet -- Finding Nemo : puzzling Maltese identity in Edgar Allan Poe's "The murders in the Rue Morgue" / Kevin Stephen Magri -- The sea and the erosion of cultural identity in Romesh Gunesekera's Reef / Melanie A. Murray -- The otherless other, or The anonymity of water : unmapping Ondaatje's "Sand sea" self in Minghella's The English patient / Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus -- The sea and the changing nature of cultural identity / Isabel Moutinho -- Diaspora in Caryl Phillips's Crossing the river (1993) / Thomas Bonnici -- "They are us" : interview with Caryl Phillips / Adrian Grima -- 5. Shared spaces -- Sharing media spaces : The Kumars at No. 42 / Hilary P. Dannenberg -- Writing second-generation migrant identity in Meera Syal's fiction / Devon Campbell-Hall -- Is "Sharing places" viable in a postmodern world order? : Salman Rushdie's Novel The ground beneath her feet / Amrit Biswas -- Sharing nation space : representations of India / T. Vijay Kumar -- Exploring boundaries : the north in western Canadian writing / Janne Korkka -- Sharing Quebec : Lorena Gale's Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke's Quebecite / Pilar Cuder-Dominguez -- Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke.