Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World (ASNEL Papers 9.1; Cross Cultures 77)

Hardcover, xvi + 317 pages, NOT ex-library. Light wear, faint marks on lower outer page edges, gentle external shelfwear. Interior is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- Contents: Permissions and Illustrations; Postcolonial Criticism at the Crossroads: Subjective Questionings of an Old-Timer / Hena Maes-Jelinek; From Foreign Logics / Bernard Cohen; -- The Future of Postcolonial Studies: -- Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Rise of (Trans)cultural Studies / Graham Huggan; Beyond Postcolonial Theory?: Paradoxes and Potentialities of a Necessary Paradigm / Sandra Ponzanesi; From Postcolonial to Preglobal: Transnational Culture and the Resurgent Project of Modernity / Frank Schulze-Engler; An Introduction to Dharmic Ethics / Sujay Sood; African Literary Studies and the Internet: No Territory for Africans / Dominique Bediako; Meaning in Character: Armah's Teacher in The Beautyful Ones Revisited / Babila J. Mutia; A New Desire for the grands récits?: Propositions for a Critical Universalism / Virginia Richter; Nationalist Without a Nation: Kapka Kassabova / Anna J. Smith; New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the Transcultural Future, or: Will the Centre Hold? / Janet Wilson; -- New Zealand and Australian Poetry: -- Poetry as Translation of History and Nature: The Poem Archipelago and the Ecopoetic Paradigm in the Pacific / Denys Trussell; Queen of the Castle - Blue Irises / Jan Kemp; Lucky table - Reading the Russians - Poetry, oh yes! / Vincent O'Sullivan; Islandhood - A Firework Maker on the Domestic Front - The Fireworks Lesson / Andrew Sant; -- Translation and Interculturalism: -- Dancing Prankster or the Enlightened Seer?: Raja Rao's The Cat and Shakespeare and Patrick White's The Solid Mandala / Krishna Barua; 'Beware the Ides of March': Amending Julius Nyerere's Julius Caesar / Bernth Lindfors; Taking on The Tempest: Problems of Postcolonial Re/presentation / Ilka Saal; Cross-Cultural Experience and Existence in Yasmine Gooneratne's Novel A Change of Skies / Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp; Translator in Transit: Postcolonial Identities in Transformation on the Pacific Rim; Annamarie Jagose's In Translation / Russell West; Storytelling as a Process of Transcultural Mediation: The Examples of Robert Kroetsch and Thomas King / Gundula Wilke; -- Anglophone / Francophone Relations: -- Connections: Simon Njami - Chester Himes; Abdourahman Waberi - Nuruddin Farah / Adele King; Maîtres chez nous — Masters in Our Own House: The Treatment of Quebec Separatism in Canadian Projective Fiction / Ralph Pordzik; -- Syncretism in the Theatre: -- Revival of Storytelling in Post-Apartheid South African Theatre: Identity-Construction in Lueen Canning's A Coloured Place and Athol Fugard and The Cast's My Life / Raike Frank; The Man of Man (From the Man of Man Trilogy) / Sujay Sood -- This collection has one central theoretical focus, viz. stock-taking essays on the present and future status of postcolonialism, transculturalism, nationalism, and globalization. These are complemented by 'special' angles of entry and by considerations of the global impress of technology (African literary studies and the Internet). Further essays have a focus on literary-cultural studies in Australia (the South Asian experience) and New Zealand (ecopoetics; a Central European émigrée perspective on the nation; the unravelling of literary nationalism; transplantation and the trope of translation). The thematic umbrella, finally, covers studies of such topics as translation and interculturalism (the transcendental in Australian and Indian fiction; African Shakespeares; Canadian narrative and First-Nations story templates); anglophone / francophone relations (the writing and rewriting of crime fiction in Africa and the USA; utopian fiction in Quebec); and syncretism in post-apartheid South African theatre.…