Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures PDF
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Word & Image C ro ss Readings in the Post / Colonial ultures Literatures in English 116 ASNEL Papers 14 Series Editors Gordon Collier †Hena Maes–Jelinek Geoffrey Davis (Giessen) (Liège) (Aachen) ASNEL Papers appear under the auspices of the Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen e.V. (GNEL) Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) Mark Stein, President (English Department, University of Münster) Formatting, layout and final editing: Gordon Collier Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures ASNEL Papers 14 Edited by Michael Meyer Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009 Cover collage: Gordon Collier Cover design: Pier Post 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: 978-90-420-2743-5 E-Book ISBN: 978-90-420-2744-2 © Editions Rodopi B.V., Amsterdam – New York, NY 2009 Printed in The Netherlands Table of Contents Acknowledgements ix Illustrations and Permissions xi Introduction Word & Image – Gaze & Spectacle MICHAEL MEYER xvii COLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS Liberating the Strange Fish Visual Representations of Caliban and Their Successive Emancipation from Shakespeare’s Original Text DANIEL JACZMINSKI 1 Hogarth and the Other PETER WAGNER 21 “The free treatment of topics usually taboo’d” Glimpses of the Harem in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Fine Arts PATRICIA PLUMMER 47 Tourist Places, Other Gazes Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh CORDULA LEMKE 69 POSTCOLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS “Picture is a Silent Talker” (Apagya) African Studio Photography in the English Classroom GISELA FEURLE 87 A Black and White Nation? The ‘New’ South Africa in Zapiro’s Cartoons SONJA ALTNÖDER 107 Zakes Mda’s Representation of South African Reality in Ways of Dying, The Madonna of Excelsior and The Whale Caller MARITA WENZEL 125 Looking Out and Looking In The Dynamic Use of Words and Images in the Oeuvre of Breyten Breytenbach HEILNA DU PLOOY 147 Whiteness as a Category of Literary Analysis Racializing Markers and Race-Evasiveness in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace SUSAN ARNDT 167 “Just for show” Visuality in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King ANN SPANGENBERG 191 On Pickles, Pictures, and Words: Pick-torial Preservation and Verbal Self-Regeneration in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children LAURENCE PETIT 205 “Neither united nor separated” Negotiating Difference in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan and Ketan Mehta’s Mangal Pandey LUCIA KRÄMER 219 Transcultural Gender Interrogations in Bride and Prejudice Intertextual Encounters of the South Asian Diasporic Kind CHRISTINE VOGT–WILLIAM 237 Missing in Act(i)on Asian-British Pop Music Between Resistance and Commercialization RAINER EMIG 261 Vernacular Landscape Narrative Space in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang RENATE BROSCH 279 Regaining the Past and Shaping the Present Indigenous Children’s Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the USA MICHAELA MOURA–KOÇOĞLU 305 Between Words and Images Negotiating the Meaning of Home in Ken Lum’s There Is No Place Like Home NICOLE SCHRÖDER 327 The Mass-Slaughter of Native Americans in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man A Complex Interplay of Word and Image JENS MARTIN GURR 353 Notes on Contributors 373 Acknowledgements As the organizer of the Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) and the editor of the present proceedings, I should like to express my sincere thanks to all those who contributed to these two projects. I am heavily indebted to Frank Schulze–Engler, Heinz Antor, Vera Christoph, and Henning Schäfer for helping to establish important contacts and for providing support for plenary speakers. I am very grateful to the ASNEL, the British Council, the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien and the Cultural Personalities Ex- change Program of the Government of Canada, the Friends of the Uni- versity in Koblenz e.V. and the University of Koblenz–Landau for finan- cial support, the publishers Rodopi and Narr/Francke for providing resources. I would like to thank the secretary of the department, Gisela Anheier, and the students Kerstin Eichler, Steffen Foellmer, Alexandra Gaida, Athar Husain, Tina Hopp, and Monika Reif for their untiring efforts and warm spirit that helped to make the conference a successful academic and social event. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to Gisela Anheier, Fred Thompson, and Julia Jung, who helped with proof- reading, Christa Stevens from Rodopi for her advice and patience, and Gordon Collier, whose expertise as a technical editor gave this volume the final shape and polish.
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