Missions of interdependence : : a literary directory / / Gerhard Stilz.

• VerfasserIn: Stilz, Gerhard,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

At the beginning of the twenty-first century it is necessary to combine into a productive programme the striving for individual emancipation and the social practice of humanism, in order to help the world survive both the ancient pitfalls of particularist terrorism and the levelling tendencies of cultural indifference engendered by the renewed imperialist arrogance of hegemonial global capital. In this book, thirty-five scholars address and negotiate, in a spirit of learning and understanding, an exemplary variety of intercultural splits and fissures that have opened up in the English-speaking world. Their methodology can be seen to constitute a seminal field of intellectual signposts. They point out ways and means of responsibly assessing colonial predicaments and postcolonial developments in six regions shaped in the past by the British Empire and still associated today through their allegiance to the idea of a Commonwealth of Nations. They show how a new ethic of literary self-assertion, interpretative mediation and critical responsiveness can remove the deeply ingrained prejudices, silences and taboos established by discrimination against race, class and gender.

Table of Contents

Introduction North America Ulla Haselstein: Puritans and Praying Indians: Versions of TranscuIturation in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative (1682)Pilar Cuder Domínguez: Colonial Canada's Forgotten Captivity Narratives: James Russell's Matilda; or, the Indian's Captive (1833)Mirko Jurak: Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood: On National Identity in Canadian LiteratureMaya Petrukhina: Timothy Findley's Look into History and War Mark Shackleton: Tomson Highway: Colonizing Christianity versus Native Myth - From Cultural Conflict to ReconciliationMari Peepre: Crossing the Fields of Death in Kerri Sakamoto's The Electrical Field (1998)The CaribbeanBruce King: Religion and Education in Derek Walcott's St Lucia John Thieme: Derek Walcott and the Light of the World Ulrike Erichsen: "Planning a strategy to beat back those spirit thieves": Erna Brodber's Novel MyalAnne Collett: A Snake in the Garden of The New Yorker? An Analysis of the Disruptive Function of Jamaica Kincaid's Gardening Column Sarah Lawson Welsh: Imposing Narratives: European Incursions and Intertexts in Pauline Melville's The Ventriloquist's Tale (1997)Bénédicte Ledent: "One is exiled when one refuses to obey the commandments of Conquest Mission": Religion as Metaphor in Caryl Phillips's Diasporic PhilosophyAfricaJacqueline Bardolph: Moving away from the Mission: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Versions of A Grain of WheatThengani H. Ngwenya: Ideology and Self-Representation in Autobiography: The Case of Katie MakanyaHeilna Du Plooy: New Voices Rewriting the Community: Dialogic History in South Africa; A.H.M. Scholtz's Novel VatmaarEva Hunter: New War Stories: Women, Heroes and Violence in Yvonne Vera's Novels John C. Hawley: Tsitsi Dangarembga's Ambiguous Adventure: Nervous Conditions and the Blandishments of Mission Education IndiaHyacinth Cynthia Wyatt: Resistance through Sub / mission in the Novels of R.K. NarayanIsabel Alonso Breto: Manichaeism and Mimicry in Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's Heat and DustRajiva Wijesinha: A Deeper Communion: The Older Women of the Raj QuartetChitra Sankaran: Colonialism, Hegemony and After in Nayantara Sahgal's Rich Like UsRocío G. Davis: To Dwell in Travel: Historical Ironies in Amitav Ghosh's In an Antique LandRobert Ross: "Dissolving Boundaries": The Woman as Immigrant in the Fiction of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.Alexandra Podgórniak: Magical Realism, Indian-Style, or the Case of Multiple Submission : The God of Small Things by Arundhati RoyAustraliaOlga Sudlenkova: Fair Australasia: A Poet's Farewell to EmigrantsMarc Delrez: Ambivalent Oppositionality: David Malouf's Fly Away Peter - A European ViewRalph Pordzik: Reinventing the Future(s): Peter Carey and the Dystopian Tradition in Australian FictionSigrun Meinig: Literary Lessons from the Past: Stereotypes and Intertextuality in Peter Carey's Jack MaggsCynthia Vanden Driesen: The (Ad)Missions of the Colonizer: Australian Paradigms in Selected Works of Prichard, Malouf and WhiteEva Rask Knudsen: Mission Completed? On Mudrooroo's Contribution to the Politics of Aboriginal Literature in AustraliaGerry Turcotte: Mission Impossible: Mudrooroo's Gothic Inter / Mission StatementNew Zealand and the PacificBärbel Czennia: Missionaries of the British Muse: Concepts of Literary Nation-Building in Early New Zealand Poetry in EnglishPeter H. Marsden: From Erewhon to Nowhere: A Leitmotif of New Zealand Poetry?Reina Whaitiri: A Sovereign Mission: Maori Maids, Maidens and MothersJean-Pierre Durix: The Sky-Piercers, Lions and Aitu: Missions and 'Traditions' in Albert Wendt's Vision of a New PacificContributorsIndex --.