Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a Post -Colonial World 2

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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 CRITICAL 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 KuSnír, 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 THE EDITORS: 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.