Postcolonial gateways and walls under construction / edited by Daria Tunca, Janet Wilson.
| Other author | Tunca, Daria. |
| Other author | Wilson, Janet, 1948- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017] |
| Description | xviii, 347 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 195 Cross/cultures ; 195. ^A691263 |
| Contents | Introduction : gateways and walls, or the power and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors / Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson -- Clothing the borders : dress as a signifier in colonial and post-colonial space / Gareth Griffiths -- "As rare as rubies" : did Salman Rushdie invent Turkish American-literature? / Elena Furlanetto -- The Bosphorus syndrome / Gerhard Stilz -- Geography fabulous : Conrad and Ghosh / Padmini Mongia -- The concomitant spaces of territory and writing : crossing cultural divides / Marta Dvoérâak -- Towards an Australian philosophy : constructive appropriation of enlightenment thinking in Murray Bail's The Pages / Marie Herbillon -- Image-i-nation : Africa/nation, identity, and the nation(s) within / Bronwyn Mills -- Refugees and three short stories from Sri Lanka / Simran Chadha -- Gateway to the unknowable : the Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bâenaráes / John C. Hawley -- Postcolonial literature in the time of world literature / Deepika Marya -- "Die Mauer is no joke!" : the Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueen's Berlin Diary and in the works of Kapka Kassabova / Claudia Duppâe -- The wall as signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's works / Carmen Concilio -- Enclosed: nature : Carol Shields' textual mazes / Vera Alexander -- An ethics of mourning : loss and transnational dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh / Golnar Nabizadeh -- The mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street / Elisabeth Bekers -- Desexing the crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices / Devon Campbell-Hall -- The burden of possessions : a postcolonial reading of letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi / M.J. Daymond -- Gendered gateways : Australian surfing and the construction of masculinities in Tim Winton's Breath / Sissy Helff. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Issued in other form | Electronic version: Postcolonial gateways and walls. Leiden : Brill Rodopi, 2017 9004337687 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016954681 |
| ISBN | 9789004337671 (hd. bd. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9004337679 |
| ISBN | (online) |
| Standard identifier# | 9789004337671 |
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