Discourses of empire and commonwealth / / edited by Sandra Robinson, Alastair Niven.

• Superior document: Cross/Cultures, Volume 192
• TeilnehmendeR: Robinson, Sandra,; Niven, Alastair,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Rodopi,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/cultures ; Volume 192.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth a range of prominent writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity. The contributors, writing about a wide range of countries, affirm the freedom of the human spirit, even within unjust or oppressive social systems. They show the power of words to illuminate injustices and unite different peoples. Salman Rushdie famously declared that Commonwealth Literature has had its day: this book provides a vital antidote to this idea. Editors Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven have put together this mixture of personal reflections, critical overviews, historical re-evaluations and creative works to illustrate the vitality of this genre.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven -- Introduction: Caliban’s Dream / Alastair Niven -- Commonwealth Literature Studies: Writers versus Critics / Hena Maes–Jelinek -- Out the Box? / Dennis Walder -- First Language: Yours, Mine, Ours / Sanjukta Dasgupta -- Cristóbal Colón/Cristoforo Colombo/ Christopher Columbus: What’s in a Name? Translation and Politics in a Postcolonial World / Amanda Hopkinson -- Gitanjali 100 Years On: Tagore for Today and for the Future / William Radice -- Folk, Modern, Oriental, Dramatic or Communist: Translating Tagore into Hungarian / Imre Bangha -- Tagore’s Poetry: What It Can Teach Us / Ketaki Kushari Dyson -- Empire and Me: An Indian Testimony / Harish Trivedi -- My Life Journey into the Empire of Nobodies, Rogues, “Peoples without History” and Associated History Wars: Origins of the Fatal Attraction of an Historian to ‘Non-history’ / Ian Duffield -- Growing Up in Malta and Empire Influence / Daniel Massa -- The View from Elsewhere: Fiji / Satendra Nandan -- A Post-Imperial Life / Kaye Whiteman -- The View from Elsewhere: Australia / Peter Porter -- Many Worlds, Many Selves / Meira Chand -- The View from Elsewhere: Egypt / Penelope Lively -- A Sweet, Just, Boyish Master: The Repressed Soul of the Empire-Man / Jake Arnott -- Tagore, the Elmhirsts, and Dartington: Some Unexpected Educational Connections / Ursula King -- His Natural Life and Natural Rights: An Inquiry into Philosophical, Literary, and Legal Themes / Sandra Robinson -- Cactus Town / Aamer Hussein -- A Season of Disillusion / Margaret Busby -- Heaven’s Edge / Romesh Gunesekera -- Interrogation / Jack Mapanje -- Notes on the Contributors and Editors / Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven -- Index / Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven.