Connecting Cultures

ISBN-13: 9780415494977 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 178 str.

Bainbridge Emma

Opis

This lively and incisive collection of essays from an international group of scholars explores the interactions between cultures originating in Africa, India, the Caribbean, and Europe.

Spis treści

Connecting Cultures.  Translating Terror.  The Narratives and Counter-Narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: Female Voices.  Remembering Rousseau: Nostalgia and the Responsibilities of the Self.  Narratives of Southern African Farms.  The Invention of Mourning in Post – Apartheid Literature.  Locating Identity in Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to our Hillbrow.  Travel and Transgression: Dan Jacobson’s Southern African Journey. Narrating a White Africa: Autobiography, Race and History.  What it Means to Stay: Reterritorialising the Black Atlantic in Erna Brodber’s Writing of the Local.  Views and Visions: Layered Landscapes in West Indian Migrant Narratives.  Writing ‘Home’: Mediating between ‘the Local’ and ‘the Literary’ in a Selection of Postcolonial Women’s Texts.  Translating/ ‘The’ Kama Sutra.  Cultural Connections: Lagaan and its Audience Responses.  Writing the Nation’s Destiny: Indian Fiction in English before 1910.  Monological Discourse and the Creation of Villains: A Staging of Witnesses after 9/11.  Cubanos, Americans and Modes of Being Between in Pre-Castro Cuba.

O autorze

Emma Bainbridge is currently working at the University of Kent. She was the Conference  Secretary for the Connecting Cultures conference in April 2004.