This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents. Topics treated: Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to ‘void’; women’s overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England.
Writers discussed: Lalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred Wah
Contributions by Ken Arvidson; Thomas Brückner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppé; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav Kušnír; Chantal Kwast–Greff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent O’Sullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rønning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schröder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine Vogt–William; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold.
Creative writing by Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol
Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen. Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liège.
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Norbert PLATZ et al.: In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924–2000): A Tribute
LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES
Thomas BRÜCKNER: An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol
Mike NICOL: from The Ibis Tapestry
John DOUTHWAITE: Coetzee’s Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter
Dorothy DRIVER: Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing
John GAMGEE: The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee
Richard SAMIN: Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies
Brian WORSFOLD: Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamla’s Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
André VIOLA: Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s
Clara JOSEPH: The S(p)ecular ‘Convert’: A Response to Gauri Viswanathan’s Outside the Fold
Bernard WILSON: Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang’s London Does Not Belong To Me
Anne H. RØNNING: Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne
Bernd HERZOGENRATH: The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield
Jaroslav KUŠNÍR: Multiculturalism in Helen Darville’s The Hand That Signed The Paper?
Chantal KWAST–GREFF: Mad ‘Mad’ Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction
Sigrun MEINIG: Myopic Visions: Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom
Katherine GALLAGHER: Jet Lag. My Mother’s Garden. Reckoning
Peter GOLDSWORTHY: Evil Eye. Bed
Syd HARREX: What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? A Lover’s Anguish in King William St. No Title. Aroma Therapy. Screen Images
ABORIGINAL LITERATURE
David CALLAHAN: Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr’s The Light People
Nicole SCHRÖDER: Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo
Judith DELL PANNY: Inside the Spiral: Māori Writing in English
MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY
Marc COLAVINCENZO: “Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables”: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms
Robert FRASER: Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje’s Toronto and Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo
Susanne HILF: “Hybridize or Disappear”: Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill
D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust
Obododimma OHA: Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest
for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa
M.Z. MALABA : Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Paton’s Fiction
Jochen PETZOLD: Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope’s Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley
Anne FUCHS: The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg
Malcolm PURKEY: Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN
Eleonora CHIAVETTA: In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emecheta’s Been-To Novels
Michael MEYER: The Other Women’s Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta
Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY: “Searching for a Sense of Self”: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie
Stéphanie RAVILLON: An Introduction to Salman Rushdie’s Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses
Cecile SANDTEN: East is West: Hanif Kureishi’s Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastava’s Metropolitan Yuppies
Christine VOGT–WILLIAM: Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me
Notes on Contributors