Postcolonial gateways and walls under construction /
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| Imprint: | Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2017] |
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| Description: | xviii, 347 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cross/cultures, 0924-1426 ; volume 195 Cross/cultures ; volume 195. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10956303 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors
- I. Gateways and Walls: Between East and West
- Clothing the Borders: Dress as a Signifier in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space
- "As Rare as Rubies": Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-Literature?
- The Bosphorus Syndrome
- Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh
- The Concomitant Spaces of Territory and Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides
- II. Under Construction: Nations and Cultures
- Towards an Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation of Enlightenment Thinking in Murray Bail's The Pages
- Image-i-nation: Africa/nation, Identity, and the Nation(s) Within
- Refugees and Three Short Stories from Sri Lanka
- Gateway to the Unknowable: The Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès
- Postcolonial Literature in the Time of World Literature
- III. The Border: Wall or Gateway?
- "Die Mauer is no joke!": The Berlin Wall in Cilia McQueen's Berlin Diary and in the Works of Kapka Kassabova
- The Wall as Signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's Works
- Enclosed: Nature. Carol Shields' Textual Mazes
- An Ethics of Mourning: Loss and Transnational Dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh
- IV. Gendered Gateways and Walls
- The Mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street
- 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
- The Burden of Possessions: A Postcolonial Reading of Letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi
- Gendered Gateways: Australian Surfing and the Construction of Masculinities in Tim Win ton's Breath
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
