Postcolonial Past & Present: Negotiating Literary and Cultural Geographies

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37653-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 206, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars of literature, history and visual arts look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty, asking what it might mean to Indigenise culture. A new cultural politics demands new forms of making and interpretation that rethink and reroute existing cultural categories and geographies. These ‘makers’ include Mukunda Das, Janet Frame, Xavier Herbert, Tomson Highway, Claude McKay, Marie Munkara, Elsje van Keppel, Albert Wendt, Jane Whiteley and Alexis Wright. Case studies from Canada to the Caribbean, India to the Pacific, and Africa, analyse the productive ways that artists and intellectuals have made sense of turbulent local and global forces.

Contributors: Bill Ashcroft, Debnarayan Bandyopadhyay, Anne Brewster, Diana Brydon, Meeta Chatterjee—Padmanabhan, Anne Collett, Dorothy Jones, Kay Lawrence, Russell McDougall, Tekura Moeka’a, Tony Simões da Silva, Teresia Teaiwa, Albert Wendt, Lydia Wevers, Diana Wood Conroy

Autoren/Hrsg.

Collett, Anne

Dale, Leigh

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

Albert Wendt

Illustrations and Appendices

Notes on Contributors and Editors

Part 1: Collision, Connection, and Change

1 Textiles from the Sea of Islands

Sacred Heart Nuns and Craft Advisers in Papua New Guinea and Australia

Diana Wood Conroy

2 Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North”

Diana Brydon

3 Nationalism from Below

Folk Nationalist Formations of Mukunda Das

Deb Narayan Bandyopadhyay

4 Xavier Herbert’s Enlightenment

The Solomon Islands Nightmare, 1928

Russell McDougall

5 Regime Change Literature and Transitional Justice

Tony Simões da Silva

Part 2: Case Studies

6 Laughter and the Indigenous Trickster Aesthetics of Marie Munkara’s Every Secret Thing

Anne Brewster

7 Claude McKay and the Pestilential City

The Metropolis, the Clinic, the Crisis

Anne Collett

8 Bodily Cloth

The Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Keppel and Jane Whiteley

Kay Lawrence

9 Overseas and Underground

Travel and Travellers in Janet Frame’s Fiction

Dorothy Jones

10 “Indias of the mind”

Maps, Mothers, and Ethnicized Wonder Woman Outfits in Australian–Indian Fiction

Meeta Chatterjee–Padmanabhan

11 Singing the Spiral of Time

Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela

Bill Ashcroft

12 Comparative History in Polynesia

Some Challenges of Studying the Past in the Postcolonial Present

Teresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka‘a

Afterword

Lydia Wevers

Über Autor(innen)

Anne Collett is an Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is former editor of Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing & culture, and author of numerous essays on Caribbean, Australian and Canadian poetry.

Leigh Dale is Honorary Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and author of books on self harm and the history of teaching English literatures in universities, as well as essays on postcolonial literatures (mainly Australian).