Literature for Our Times: Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century PDF
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Literature for Our Times CROSS Readings in Post/Colonial ULTURES Literatures and Cultures in English 145 SERIES EDITORS Gordon Collier Bénédicte Ledent Geoffrey Davis (Giessen) (Liège) (Aachen) CO-FOUNDING EDITOR Hena Maes–Jelinek Literature for Our Times Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Bill Ashcroft, Ranjini Mendis, Julie McGonegal, and Arun Mukherjee Introduction by Bill Ashcroft Amsterdam - New York, NY 2012 Cover image: Gordon Collier (based on Susan Point, Into the Light) Back cover image: Susan Point (Musqueam – Coast Salish) Into the Light (2008; serigraph; 59.1 x 136.5 cm) courtesy of the artist www.susanpoint.com Cover design: Inge Baeten The paper on which this book is printed meets the requirements of “ISO 9706:1994, Information and documentation - Paper for documents - Requirements for permanence”. ISBN: 978-90-420-3453-2 E-Book ISBN: 978-94-012-0739-3 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2012 Printed in The Netherlands To the memory of Meenakshi Mukherjee (*Kolkata 1937–†Hyderabad 2009) Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements RANJINI MENDIS xi Introduction: A Convivial Critical Democracy – Post-Colonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century BILL ASHCROFT xv THE IDEA OF (POSTCOLONIAL) LITERATURE: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES The Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature FRANK SCHULZE–ENGLER 3 Global Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era DEBJANI GANGULY 15 Not (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonialism LINCOLN Z. SHLENSKY 37 Frailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times PAUL SHARRAD 53 Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K NELA BUREU RAMOS 69 AFTER SAID: IMPERIAL SCHOLARSHIP, RACE, AND ETHNICITY From Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey’s Providential Orientalism DANIEL SANJIV ROBERTS 91 Rebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons SATISH C. AIKANT 103 TRANSLATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS A Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages NGG WA THIONG’O 117 Ngg’s Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex JOHN C. HAWLEY 125 Re-membering the Dismembered: Ngg wa Thiong’o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation MUMIA G. OSAAJI 137 Scars of Language in Translation: The ‘Itchy’ Poetics of Jam Ismail ELENA BASILE 151 English in the Languages of Cultural Encounters ROBERT J.C. YOUNG 165 LITERATURES OF DIASPORA AND MIGRANCY The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality? SISSY HELFF 187 Drickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Waves of Nothingness JOHN CLEMENT BALL 203 Bhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab ANJALI GERA ROY 221 “Trading Places in the Promised Lands”: Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives DOROTHY LANE 245 Writing as Healing: Fijindians – The Twice Banished? KAVITA IVY NANDAN 269 GENDERED BODIES To Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights FEROZA JUSSAWALLA 289 Gendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus CHERYL STOBIE 307 Bearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and History MARILYN ADLER PAPAYANIS 327 INDIGENOUS LITERATURES, LITERATURES OF THE LAND: AN ETHOS FOR THESE TIMES Literature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG 345 Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction SAM MCKEGNEY 357 From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior? Constructions of a Māori Tradition of Warfare MICHAELA MOURA–KOÇOLU 369 A Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature CHELVA KANAGANAYAKAM 383 Asia’s Christian-Latin Nation? Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines STEPHEN NEY 393 DALIT LITERATURE AND ITS CRITICISM A Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women K.A. GEETHA 411 Tamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles P. SIVAKAMI 433 Categories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature K. SATYANARAYANA 443 THE CITY Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally VANDANA SAXENA AND ANGELIE MULTANI 469 Streets and Transformation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and “Stuart” PAMELA MCCALLUM 485 TERRORISM, TRAUMA, LOSS Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief” and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing FRED RIBKOFF 507 Affect and the Ethics of Reading ‘Post-Conflict’ Memoirs: Revisiting Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families SUSAN SPEAREY 523 Literature as Arduous Conversation: Terrorism and Racial Politics in Hanif Kureishi’s Borderline, “My Son the Fanatic,” and The Black Album SUMMER PERVEZ 547 “Witness is what you must bear”: Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry PILAR SOMACARRERA 565 AFTERWORD Collaterally Damaged: Youth in a Post-9/11 World HENRY A. GIROUX 591 Notes on Contributors and Editors 619 Index 629
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