The worldly scholar / / edited by Gordon Collier [and others].

• Superior document: Cross/cultures ; 149
• TeilnehmendeR: Collier, Gordon.; Davis, Geoffrey V., 1943-2018.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi B.V.,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Cross/Cultures 149.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (428 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Literature as a Rule-Breaking Activity /; Construction of Identities, Polar Opposites, and Cultural Models: The Binary Approach to Cultural Interaction /; What Happens in the ‘Contact Zone?’ /; Endangered Languages and Dispossessed Communities /; Ecocriticism, Environmental Ethics, and a New Ecological Culture /; Extreme Liminality: The Linked Stories of Édouard, Juliette, and Lena in Mavis Gallant’s Overhead in a Balloon /; Move the Earth with One’s Dramatic Shovel?: Some Observations on Recent Plays in Canada and Beyond /; Fanciful Indigeneity /; Between European Past and Canadian Present: Lesbian Mennonite Writing and Collective Memory /; Entropy and the Totally Buried Home in Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass /; “Under a pillar of rain / thinking goodbye”: Remembering Kamala Das /; “Bubbles into the Bottle” of Postcolonialism: Ritornellos and Screen-Memories in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things /; The Materialization and Transformation of Xavier Herbert: A Body of Work Committed to Australia /; The Phantom and Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well /; Due Preparations for Paradise: or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital /; “Grace of the Crocodiles”: Towards Deterritorialization of Culture in Robert Drewe’s Grace /; Lives of Artists, Identities of Countries: Dependence, Displacement, Identity, and Australia in Peter Carey’s Theft /; Positioning Alterity: Multi-Ethnic Identities in Contemporary New Zealand Drama /; Ut pictura poiesis: Paintings and Painters in the Poetry of Peter Bland /; A Play of Significance: Roy Williams’s Days of Significance and the Question of Labels /; Postcolonizing Glasgow’s Amnesia: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark as a Palimpsest of Scottish Imperial History /; A Foreigner at Home: Morrissey and the Art of Embarrassment /; Zweig’s Englishmen /; “Mr Davis’s Monument, or Dear Mr Davis, what shall I do?”: Lobpreisung – ein Glückwunsch für Geoffrey V. Davis aus festlichem Anlass /; The Enigma of Hitler: Counterfactual Perspectives /; A Tale of Two Cities /; Onto the Spin Cycle /; The Day Collector: An Ode /; Canada Quartet for Geoff /; Travelogue /; Karri forest /; The Way to Agra; or Nature’s Pain Everywhere /; from this side of memory (for geoff davis) /; Notes on Contributors.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
• ISBN: 1280875410; 9786613716729; 9401207852
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Gordon Collier [and others].

This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of ‘settler colony’ texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence ‘homeward’ to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric Emmanuel–Schmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.