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English Postcoloniality RecentTitlesin ContributionstotheStudyofWorldLiterature StoriedCities:LiteraryImaginingofFlorence,VeniceandRome MichaelL.Ross WomenWritersinRussianLiterature TobyW.ClymanandDianaGreene,editors WritingtheGoodFight:PoliticalCommitmentintheInternationalLiteratureofthe SpanishCivilWar PeterMonteath Money:Lure,Lore,andLiterature JohnLouisDiGaetani,editor Smollett’sWomen:AStudyinanEighteenth-CenturyMasculineSensibility RobertD.Spector EnglishCountryLifeintheBarsetshireNovelsofAngelaThirkell LauraRobertsCollins Bakhtin,Stalin,andModernRussianFiction:Carnival,Dialogism,andHistory M.KeithBookerandDubravkaJuraga AspectsandIssuesintheHistoryofChildren’sLiterature MariaNikolajeva,editor ReluctantExpatriate:TheLifeofHaroldFrederic RobertM.Myers TheDeclineoftheGoddess:Nature,Culture,andWomeninThomasHardy’sFiction ShirleyA.Stave PostcolonialDiscourseandChangingCulturalContexts GitaRajanandRadhikaMohanram,editors PrometheusandFaust:ThePrometheanRevoltinDramafromClassicalAntiquity toGoethe TimothyRichardWutrich ENGLISH POSTCOLONIALITY LiteraturesfromAroundtheWorld Editedby Radhika Mohanram andGita Rajan ContributionstotheStudyofWorldLiterature,Number66 EmmanuelS.Nelson,SeriesAdviser GREENWOODPRESS Westport,Connecticut • London LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Englishpostcoloniality:literaturesfromaroundtheworld/edited byRadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan. p. cm.—(Contributionstothestudyofworldliterature, ISSN0738–9345;no.66) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–313–28854–2(alk.paper) 1. Commonwealthliterature(English)—Historyandcriticism. 2. Commonwealthcountries—Inliterature. 3. Developingcountries— Inliterature. 4. Indigenouspeoplesinliterature. 5. Decolonizationinliterature. I. Mohanram,Radhika. II. Rajan, Gita. III. Series. PR9080.E55 1996 820.9'9171241—dc20 95–33071 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataisavailable. Copyright(cid:2)1996byRadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan Allrightsreserved.Noportionofthisbookmaybe reproduced,byanyprocessortechnique,withoutthe expresswrittenconsentofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:95–33071 ISBN:0–313–28854–2 ISSN:0738–9345 Firstpublishedin1996 GreenwoodPress,88PostRoadWest,Westport,CT06881 AnimprintofGreenwoodPublishingGroup,Inc. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica TM Thepaperusedinthisbookcomplieswiththe PermanentPaperStandardissuedbytheNational InformationStandardsOrganization(Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CopyrightAcknowledgments Theeditorsandpublisheraregratefulforpermissiontoreprintexcerptsfromthefollowing copyrightedmaterials: MargaretAtwood.‘‘BackdropAddressesCowboy.’’InPoetsofContemporaryCanada1960– 1970.Ed.EliMandel.Toronto:McClellandandStewart,1972. Cathie Dunsford. U¨berlebende—Survivors. O.B.E.M.A. (Osnabru¨cker Bilinguale Edi- tionenvonMinorita¨tenAutorInnen).Mu¨nster:WurfVerlag,1990. BillNeidjie.StoryaboutFeeling.Ed.K.Taylor.Broome:MagabalaBooks,1989. RomaPotiki.StonesinHerMouth.Auckland:Iwa,1992. Powhiri Rika-Heke. ‘‘Neighbours.’’ Spiral 7. Ed. Spiral Collective. Wellington: Spiral, 1993. PowhiriRika-Heke.‘‘HumanRights,alaCarte,WithSalt.’’Gulliver33.Berlin/Bremen, 1993. Amos Tutuola. The Palm-Wine Drinkard. New York: Grove Press, 1953. Copyright (cid:2) 1953.BypermissionofGrove/Atlantic,Inc. Everyreasonableefforthasbeenmadetotracetheownersofcopyrightmaterialsinthis book,butinsomeinstancesthishasprovenimpossible.Theeditorsandpublisherwillbe glad to receive information leading to more complete acknowledgments in subsequent printingsofthebookandinthemeantimeextendtheirapologiesforanyomissions. Contents Acknowledgments ix I. GENERALINTRODUCTION Introduction:TheConceptofEnglishPostcoloniality RadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan 3 APostcolonialTale JoyHarjo 15 II. HISTORICALSURVEY OutoftheCenter:ThoughtsonthePost-colonialLiteraturesof AustraliaandNewZealand RalphJ.Crane 21 ‘‘ATerribleBeautyIsBorn’’:IrishLiteratureasaParadigmfor theFormationofPostcolonialLiteratures IanCrump 31 CaribbeanWritinginEnglish:IntimationsofaHistorical Nightmare P.S.Chauhan 43 SouthAfricanWritinginEnglish JohnC.Hawley 53 PostcolonialEastAfricanLiterature:TowardaLiteratureofthe People,forthePeople,andbythePeople? JeannineDeLombard 63 BetweenCultures:InsightsonWestAfricanWritinginEnglish AnthoniaKalu 77 viii Contents Language,Identity,andNationinPostcolonialIndianEnglish Literature AparnaDharwadkerandVinayDharwadker 89 ProlegomenatotheStudyofPakistaniEnglishandPakistani LiteratureinEnglish AlamgirHashmi 107 CanadianWritinginEnglishandMulticulturalism LeonLitvack 119 HistoricalReviewofAfrican-AmericanLiterature ChristopherWiseandCoraAgatucci 135 III. INDIGENOUSLITERATURES MarginorCenter?‘‘Letmetellyou!IntheLandofmy AncestorsIamtheCentre’’:IndigenousWritinginAotearoa PowhiriWharemaramaRika-Heke 147 OnWomen’sWritinginAotearoa/NewZealand:Patricia Grace,KeriHulme,CathieDunsford SigridMarkmann 165 NestingintheRuins NormaC.Wilson 179 AboriginalWriting:TwistingtheColonialSuper-narrative HughWebb 189 BibliographyofFurtherReading 203 Index 207 AbouttheEditorsandContributors 213 Acknowledgments The editorswould like to thanktheUniversityofWaikato,FairfieldUniversity, andtheUniversityofNewOrleansfortheirsupportinpreparingthismanuscript. WewouldparticularlyliketothankBarryParsonson,theDeanoftheSchoolof SocialSciencesattheUniversityofWaikato,whogaveRadhikaagenerousgrant to come tothe UnitedStatestofinishthe project,and thestaffattheCommu- nicationsCenterattheUniversityofNewOrleansfortheirpromptandcheerful transmittalofeditorialqueriesbetweentheUnitedStatesandNewZealand. We are particularly grateful to Joy Harjo, who contributed a poem for this collection.WewanttoexpressourgratitudetoEmmanuelNelson,whoencour- aged us to put this volume together, challenged us continually to be rigorousin our scrutiny of the essays, and helped us to make difficult decisions. We thank RohinRajanforhisgood-humoredencouragement.Alsoinnumerablethanksto SusanSayerandHelenBairdattheUniversityofWaikato,whowentaboveand beyondthecalloffriendshipandpitchedinwithsecretarialworktohelpusmeet thedeadline.WewouldliketothankMaryBethBrown,Gita’sstudentatFair- fieldUniversity,forhercarefulreadingofthemanuscript.Wewouldliketothank Vijay Lakshmi Chauhan for her insightful comments and the members of the Cultural Studies Group at the University of Pennsylvania. We wish to thank Maureen Melino at Greenwood Publishing for her continued and unflagging assistanceinpreparingthisvolume. And, finally, we thank our families for their continued encouragement and support.

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English Postcoloniality RecentTitlesin ContributionstotheStudyofWorldLiterature StoriedCities:LiteraryImaginingofFlorence,VeniceandRome MichaelL.Ross WomenWritersinRussianLiterature TobyW.ClymanandDianaGreene,editors WritingtheGoodFight:PoliticalCommitmentintheInternationalLiteratureofthe SpanishCivilWar PeterMonteath Money:Lure,Lore,andLiterature JohnLouisDiGaetani,editor Smollett’sWomen:AStudyinanEighteenth-CenturyMasculineSensibility RobertD.Spector EnglishCountryLifeintheBarsetshireNovelsofAngelaThirkell LauraRobertsCollins Bakhtin,Stalin,andModernRussianFiction:Carnival,Dialogism,andHistory M.KeithBookerandDubravkaJuraga AspectsandIssuesintheHistoryofChildren’sLiterature MariaNikolajeva,editor ReluctantExpatriate:TheLifeofHaroldFrederic RobertM.Myers TheDeclineoftheGoddess:Nature,Culture,andWomeninThomasHardy’sFiction ShirleyA.Stave PostcolonialDiscourseandChangingCulturalContexts GitaRajanandRadhikaMohanram,editors PrometheusandFaust:ThePrometheanRevoltinDramafromClassicalAntiquity toGoethe TimothyRichardWutrich ENGLISH POSTCOLONIALITY LiteraturesfromAroundtheWorld Editedby Radhika Mohanram andGita Rajan ContributionstotheStudyofWorldLiterature,Number66 EmmanuelS.Nelson,SeriesAdviser GREENWOODPRESS Westport,Connecticut • London LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Englishpostcoloniality:literaturesfromaroundtheworld/edited byRadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan. p. cm.—(Contributionstothestudyofworldliterature, ISSN0738–9345;no.66) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN0–313–28854–2(alk.paper) 1. Commonwealthliterature(English)—Historyandcriticism. 2. Commonwealthcountries—Inliterature. 3. Developingcountries— Inliterature. 4. Indigenouspeoplesinliterature. 5. Decolonizationinliterature. I. Mohanram,Radhika. II. Rajan, Gita. III. Series. PR9080.E55 1996 820.9'9171241—dc20 95–33071 BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationDataisavailable. Copyright(cid:2)1996byRadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan Allrightsreserved.Noportionofthisbookmaybe reproduced,byanyprocessortechnique,withoutthe expresswrittenconsentofthepublisher. LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:95–33071 ISBN:0–313–28854–2 ISSN:0738–9345 Firstpublishedin1996 GreenwoodPress,88PostRoadWest,Westport,CT06881 AnimprintofGreenwoodPublishingGroup,Inc. PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica TM Thepaperusedinthisbookcomplieswiththe PermanentPaperStandardissuedbytheNational InformationStandardsOrganization(Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CopyrightAcknowledgments Theeditorsandpublisheraregratefulforpermissiontoreprintexcerptsfromthefollowing copyrightedmaterials: MargaretAtwood.‘‘BackdropAddressesCowboy.’’InPoetsofContemporaryCanada1960– 1970.Ed.EliMandel.Toronto:McClellandandStewart,1972. Cathie Dunsford. U¨berlebende—Survivors. O.B.E.M.A. (Osnabru¨cker Bilinguale Edi- tionenvonMinorita¨tenAutorInnen).Mu¨nster:WurfVerlag,1990. BillNeidjie.StoryaboutFeeling.Ed.K.Taylor.Broome:MagabalaBooks,1989. RomaPotiki.StonesinHerMouth.Auckland:Iwa,1992. Powhiri Rika-Heke. ‘‘Neighbours.’’ Spiral 7. Ed. Spiral Collective. Wellington: Spiral, 1993. PowhiriRika-Heke.‘‘HumanRights,alaCarte,WithSalt.’’Gulliver33.Berlin/Bremen, 1993. Amos Tutuola. The Palm-Wine Drinkard. New York: Grove Press, 1953. Copyright (cid:2) 1953.BypermissionofGrove/Atlantic,Inc. Everyreasonableefforthasbeenmadetotracetheownersofcopyrightmaterialsinthis book,butinsomeinstancesthishasprovenimpossible.Theeditorsandpublisherwillbe glad to receive information leading to more complete acknowledgments in subsequent printingsofthebookandinthemeantimeextendtheirapologiesforanyomissions. Contents Acknowledgments ix I. GENERALINTRODUCTION Introduction:TheConceptofEnglishPostcoloniality RadhikaMohanramandGitaRajan 3 APostcolonialTale JoyHarjo 15 II. HISTORICALSURVEY OutoftheCenter:ThoughtsonthePost-colonialLiteraturesof AustraliaandNewZealand RalphJ.Crane 21 ‘‘ATerribleBeautyIsBorn’’:IrishLiteratureasaParadigmfor theFormationofPostcolonialLiteratures IanCrump 31 CaribbeanWritinginEnglish:IntimationsofaHistorical Nightmare P.S.Chauhan 43 SouthAfricanWritinginEnglish JohnC.Hawley 53 PostcolonialEastAfricanLiterature:TowardaLiteratureofthe People,forthePeople,andbythePeople? JeannineDeLombard 63 BetweenCultures:InsightsonWestAfricanWritinginEnglish AnthoniaKalu 77 viii Contents Language,Identity,andNationinPostcolonialIndianEnglish Literature AparnaDharwadkerandVinayDharwadker 89 ProlegomenatotheStudyofPakistaniEnglishandPakistani LiteratureinEnglish AlamgirHashmi 107 CanadianWritinginEnglishandMulticulturalism LeonLitvack 119 HistoricalReviewofAfrican-AmericanLiterature ChristopherWiseandCoraAgatucci 135 III. INDIGENOUSLITERATURES MarginorCenter?‘‘Letmetellyou!IntheLandofmy AncestorsIamtheCentre’’:IndigenousWritinginAotearoa PowhiriWharemaramaRika-Heke 147 OnWomen’sWritinginAotearoa/NewZealand:Patricia Grace,KeriHulme,CathieDunsford SigridMarkmann 165 NestingintheRuins NormaC.Wilson 179 AboriginalWriting:TwistingtheColonialSuper-narrative HughWebb 189 BibliographyofFurtherReading 203 Index 207 AbouttheEditorsandContributors 213 Acknowledgments The editorswould like to thanktheUniversityofWaikato,FairfieldUniversity, andtheUniversityofNewOrleansfortheirsupportinpreparingthismanuscript. WewouldparticularlyliketothankBarryParsonson,theDeanoftheSchoolof SocialSciencesattheUniversityofWaikato,whogaveRadhikaagenerousgrant to come tothe UnitedStatestofinishthe project,and thestaffattheCommu- nicationsCenterattheUniversityofNewOrleansfortheirpromptandcheerful transmittalofeditorialqueriesbetweentheUnitedStatesandNewZealand. We are particularly grateful to Joy Harjo, who contributed a poem for this collection.WewanttoexpressourgratitudetoEmmanuelNelson,whoencour- aged us to put this volume together, challenged us continually to be rigorousin our scrutiny of the essays, and helped us to make difficult decisions. We thank RohinRajanforhisgood-humoredencouragement.Alsoinnumerablethanksto SusanSayerandHelenBairdattheUniversityofWaikato,whowentaboveand beyondthecalloffriendshipandpitchedinwithsecretarialworktohelpusmeet thedeadline.WewouldliketothankMaryBethBrown,Gita’sstudentatFair- fieldUniversity,forhercarefulreadingofthemanuscript.Wewouldliketothank Vijay Lakshmi Chauhan for her insightful comments and the members of the Cultural Studies Group at the University of Pennsylvania. We wish to thank Maureen Melino at Greenwood Publishing for her continued and unflagging assistanceinpreparingthisvolume. And, finally, we thank our families for their continued encouragement and support.

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