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

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 intellec...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures, Volume 193
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2017.
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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.
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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.