The cross-cultural legacy : : critical and creative writings in memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek / / edited by Gordon Collier [and three others].

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures, Volume 193
• TeilnehmendeR: Collier, Gordon,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; Volume 193.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (436 pages).
• Notes: Papers presented at a conference held March 24-26, 2010 at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, England.; Memorial volume.

This volume pays tribute to the formidable legacy of Hena Maes–Jelinek (1929–2008), a pioneering postcolonial scholar who was a professor at the University of Liège, in Belgium. Along with a few moving and affectionate pieces retracing the life and career of this remarkable and deeply human intellectual figure, the collection contains poems, short fiction, and metafiction. The bulk of the book consists of contributions on various areas of postcolonial literature, including the work of Wilson Harris, the ground-breaking writer to whom Hena Maes–Jelinek devoted much of her career. Other writers treated include Ben Okri, Leone Ross, Kamau Brathwaite, Jamaica Kincaid, Peter Carey, Murray Bail, Patrick White, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Dan Jacobson, Joseph Conrad, and Eslanda Goode Robeson. Caryl Phillips revisits his earlier reflections on the ‘European tribe’. There are wide-ranging essays analysing consanguineous authors, on such topics as Caribbean treatments of the Jewish Diaspora, Swiss-Caribbean authors, the contemporary Australian short story and the Asian connection, and ‘habitation’ in Australian fiction, as well as a searching examination of the socio-political fallout from the scandal of Australia’s ‘Stolen Generations’. Contributors are: Gordon Collier, Tim Cribb, Fred D'Aguiar, Geoffrey V. Davis, Jeanne Delbaere, Marc Delrez, Jean–Pierre Durix, Wilson Harris, Dominique Hecq, Marie Herbillon, Louis James, Karen King–Aribisala, Bénédicte Ledent, Christine Levecq, Alecia McKenzie, Carine Mardorossian, Peter H. Marsden, Alistair Niven, Annalisa Oboe, Britta Olinder, Christine Pagnoulle, Caryl Phillips, Lawrence Scott, Stephanos Stephanides, Klaus Stuckert, Peter O. Stummer, Petra Tournay–Theodotou, Daria Tunca, Cynthia vanden Driesen, Janet Wilson.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gordon Collier , Geoffrey V. Davis , Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent -- The Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes–Jelinek / Jeanne Delbaere -- Because It Was She / Jeanne Delbaere -- The Invention of Legacy: Opening Ceremony / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Text Read at the Launch of The Labyrinth of Universality / Wilson Harris -- Cumberland Lodge: Honouring Hena in the Right Setting / Alastair Niven -- A Kaddish for Hena / Peter H. Marsden -- The Photo / Alecia Mckenzie -- The Wind Under My Lips / Stephanos Stephanides -- The Empathy of Genius: Hena Maes–Jelinek and Wilson Harris / Louis James -- Place and Time: The Two Anchors / T.J. Cribb -- The Legacy of the Imagination: Reading Wilson Harris after Hena Maes–Jelinek / Jean–Pierre Durix -- Intersections on the ‘Map of Art’: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar / Daria Tunca -- A Tribute to Hena / Lawrence Scott -- On a Voyage to Demerara, 1859 / Lawrence Scott -- The Shylock In Me / Karen King–Aribisala -- Revisiting The European Tribe / Caryl Phillips -- How Anancy Feeds His Family (and Himself) / Fred D’aguiar -- Telling Your Story: Memory and Trauma in Leone Ross’s Orange Laughter / Petra Tournay–Theodotou -- On the ‘Erasure of Specificities’ in Studies of the African Diaspora / Christine Levecq -- Swiss-Caribbean Authors: A Legacy of Swiss Involvement in the Colonial System / Klaus Stuckert -- On the Kamau Trail: Tracking Poems from Page to Stage / Christine Pagnoulle -- Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter / Carine Mardorossian -- Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness / Bénédicte Ledent -- Remarkable Developments in the Australian Short Story: John Murray and Nam Le / Peter O. Stummer -- Mourning and Metafiction in Peter Carey’s Chemistry of Tears / Marc Delrez -- Prologue to an Essay / Marie Herbillon -- Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy-Tale? / Marie Herbillon -- Metonyms of Mood and Condition: The Semiosis of Habitation in Selected Australian Fiction Since Patrick White / Gordon Collier -- (Not) Saying Sorry: Australian Responses to the Howard Government’s Refusal to Apologize to the Stolen Generations / Janet Wilson -- Cannibalism and ‘Unspeakable Rites’: Patrick White’s A Fringe of Leaves and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness / Cynthia Vanden Driesen -- The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters / Britta Olinder -- “The Territory of My Imagination”: Rediscovering Dan Jacobson’s South Africa / Geoffrey V. Davis -- The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey (1945) / Annalisa Oboe -- Letters to the End of Grief / Dominique Hecq -- Notes on Contributors and Editors / Gordon Collier , Geoffrey V. Davis , Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent -- Index / Gordon Collier , Geoffrey V. Davis , Marc Delrez and Bénédicte Ledent.