New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing : Critical and Creative Contours.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures
• Author: Wilson, Janet.
• TeilnehmendeR: Ringrose, Chris.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 189.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Notes on the Contributors and EditorsIndex.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature /; A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies /; The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott /; From “The Rivers of Babylon” to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition /; The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados /; The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004) /; A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table /; “A Message in a Bottle”: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French /; Jejuri–Bandra–Jejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar /; Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desai’s Negotiation of Cultural Gaps /; Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales /; Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela /; Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory O’Brien /; “The Biggest Adventure”: Indigenous People and White Men’s Wars /; Chinese Mothers /; Cabral /; Memoirs: for Bruce /; The Book of Bruce /; Fabulous Eyelids /; For Bruce (& Adèle) /; Past Dawn /; Puppet’s Life Ends on String /; A Sheet Like Snow /; Threshold /; I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook) /; Back /; A Mute Biography /; Wonder of the Age /; Habits: Remnants /; They Say, They Never Wrote /; Conch /; Notes on the Contributors and Editors /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004329277
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing is a collection of critical and creative writing in honour of the postcolonial critic, editor and anthologist Bruce King. There are essays on topics relating to Caribbean authors (Derek Walcott, Simone and Andre Schwarz-Bart); diaspora writers in England (Zadie Smith, Andrea Levy, Michael Ondaatje), South East Asian writing in English (Arun Kolatkar, recent Pakistani fiction, Anita Desai) and New Zealand, Canadian and Pacific writers (Albert Wendt, Patricia Grace, Bill Manhire, Joseph Boyden, Greg O’Brien). The creative writing section features new work by David Dabydeen, Fred D’Aguiar, Arvind Mehrotra, Jeet Thayil, Meena Alexander, Keki Daruwalla, Adil Jussawalla, Tabish Khair, Susan Visvanathan and others, reflecting King’s pioneering work on Indian poetry in English, and his many friendships.