New soundings in postcolonial writing : : critical and creative contours / / edited by Janet Wilson, Chris Ringrose.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures, ; Volume 189
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilson, Janet,; Ringrose, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; 2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; Volume 189.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose -- Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose -- A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies / J. Michael Dash -- The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott / Robert D. Hamner -- From “The Rivers of Babylon” to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition / Kathleen Gyssels -- The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados / John T. Gilmore -- The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004) / Bénédicte Ledent -- A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table / Geetha Ganapathy–Doré -- “A Message in a Bottle”: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French / Laetitia Zecchini -- Jejuri–Bandra–Jejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar / Arvind Krishna Mehrotra -- Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desai’s Negotiation of Cultural Gaps / Marta Dvorák -- Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales / Muneeza Shamsie -- Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela / Jean–Pierre Durix -- Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory O’Brien / Gordon Collier -- “The Biggest Adventure”: Indigenous People and White Men’s Wars / Geoffrey V. Davis -- Chinese Mothers / David Dabydeen -- Cabral / Keki N. Daruwalla -- Memoirs: for Bruce / Adil Jussawalla -- The Book of Bruce / Jeet Thayil -- Fabulous Eyelids / Olive Senior -- For Bruce (& Adèle) / Fred D’aguiar -- Past Dawn / Tabish Khair -- Puppet’s Life Ends on String / Anand Thakore -- A Sheet Like Snow / Jane Bhandari -- Threshold / Manohar Shetty -- I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook) / Smita Agrawal -- Back / John Haynes -- A Mute Biography / Kevin Ireland -- Wonder of the Age / Shanta Acharya -- Habits: Remnants / Karthika Naïr -- They Say, They Never Wrote / Alamgir Hashmi -- Conch / Susan Visvanathan -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose -- Index / Janet Wilson and Chris Ringrose.