Discourses of empire and commonwealth / / edited by Sandra Robinson, Alastair Niven.
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...
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| Superior document: | Cross/Cultures, Volume 192 |
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| 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. |
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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.