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.

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 Indi...

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 / Jesús 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 mémoire, source of collective renewal : parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand / Bärbel Czennia
• 3. Writing women
• Becoming a writer in Morocco / Leila Abouzeid
• Middle Eastern women's roles transformed : the gendered spaces of Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah / 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 Pèrcopo
• 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 Québécité / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
• Towards a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke.