{"product_id":"engaging-with-literature-of-commitment-volume-2-the-worldly-scholar-9789042035096","title":"Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 2: The Worldly Scholar","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are ‘specialties’, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of ‘settler colony’ texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence ‘homeward’ to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoff’s commitment to literature has always been ‘hands-on’, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric Emmanuel–Schmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements Introduction: A Memory Trip. Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical Conspectus and Comparison Erhard Reckwitz: Literature as a Rule-Breaking Activity Sven Strasen and Peter Wenzel: Construction of Identities, Polar Opposites, and Cultural Models: The Binary Approach to Cultural Interaction Gerhard Stilz: What Happens in the ‘Contact Zone’? Ganesh Devy: Endangered Languages and Dispossessed Communities Norbert H. Platz: Ecocriticism, Environmental Ethics, and a New Ecological Culture Unsettled Settlers and Others Kristjana Gunnars: Extreme Liminality: The Linked Stories of Édouard, Juliette, and Lena in Mavis Gallant’s Overhead in a Balloon Peter O. Stummer: Move the Earth with One’s Dramatic Shovel? Some Observations on Recent Plays in Canada and Beyond Terry Goldie: Fanciful Indigeneity Martin Kuester: Between European Past and Canadian Present: Lesbian Mennonite Writing and Collective Memory David Callahan: Entropy and the Totally Buried Home in Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass Devindra Kohli: “Under a pillar of rain\/thinking goodbye”: Remembering Kamala Das Béatrice Bijon: ‘Bubbles into the Bottle’ of Postcolonialism: Ritornellos and Screen-Memories in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Russell McDougall: The Materialization and Transformation of Xavier Herbert: A Body of Work Committed to Australia Dolores Herrero: The Phantom and Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well Helga Ramsey–Kurz: Due Preparations for Paradise: or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital Marc Delrez: “Grace of the Crocodiles”: Towards Deterritorialization of Culture in Robert Drewe’s Grace Jaroslav Kušnír: Lives of Artists, Identities of Countries: Dependence, Displacement, Identity, and Australia in Peter Carey’s Theft Marc Maufort: Positioning Alterity: Multi-Ethnic Identities in Contemporary New Zealand Drama Peter H. Marsden: Ut pictura poiesis: Paintings and Painters in the Poetry of Peter Bland Home Territory Bénédicte Ledent: A Play of Significance: Roy Williams’s Days of Significance and the Question of Labels Carla Sassi: Postcolonializing Glasgow’s Amnesia: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark as a Palimpsest of Scottish Imperial History Gavin Hopps: A Foreigner at Home: Morrissey and the Art of Embarrassment First Love David Midgley: Zweig’s Englishmen Deborah Vietor–Engländer: “Mr Davis’s Monument, or Dear Mr Davis, what shall I do?” Ian Wallace: The Enigma of Hitler: Counterfactual Perspectives What It’s All About Dennis Haskell: A Tale of Two Cities Geoff Goodfellow: Onto the Spin Cycle Michael Sharkey: The Day Collector: An Ode. My Classic Bent: Scene From a Life Gordon Collier: Canada Quartet (for Geoff). Historia canis. In motionless air Anne Brewster: Travelogue Andrew Taylor: Karri forest. Maxi, goodbye Pia Thielmann: The Way to Agra; or Nature’s Pain Everywhere Kirpal Singh: from this side of memory Notes on Contributors","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210915012951,"sku":"9789042035096","price":147.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/engaging-with-literature-of-commitment-volume-2-the-worldly-scholar-9789042035096","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}