{"product_id":"shared-waters-soundings-in-postcolonial-literatures-9789042027664","title":"Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe present volume contains general essays on: unequal African\/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe’s wars; parihaka in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women’s writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series The Kumars at No. 42; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems from Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by the following authors and filmmakers: Thea Astley, George Elliott Clarke, Alan Duff, Francis Ebejer, Lorena Gale, Romesh Gunesekera, Sahar Khalīfah, Anthony Minghella, Michael Ondaatje, Caryl Phillips, Edgar Allan Poe, Salman Rushdie, Ghādah al-Sammān, Meera Syal, Lee Tamahori. Contributors: Leila Abouzeid, Hoda Barakat, Amrit Biswas, Thomas Bonnici, Stella Borg Barthet, Ivan Callus, Devon Campbell–Hall, Saviour Catania, George Elliott Clarke, Brian Crow, Pilar Cuder–Domínguez, Bärbel Czennia, Hilary P. Dannenberg, Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo, Bernadette Falzon, Daphne Grace, Adrian Grima, Kifah Hanna, Janne Korkka, T. Vijay Kumar, Chantal Kwast–Greff, Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo, Kevin Stephen Magri, Isabel Moutinho, Melanie A. Murray, Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju, Gerhard Stilz, Jesús Varela Zapata, Christine Vogt–William.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction and Acknowledgements Projecting Postcolonialism Hoda Barakat: Exchanging – Sharing Our Places; translated from French by Carmen Depasquale Brian Crow: Exclusion and the Intellectuals: Some Thoughts on Unequal Academic Exchange Between Africa and the West Jesús Varela Zapata: What Lies Ahead: Consolidation and Diversity in Postcolonial Studies Daphne Grace: Beyond Revolution: Re-Writing Violence and the Future of Postcolonial Studies War and Remembrance Gerhard Stilz: Territorial Terrors: Colonial Spaces and Postcolonial Revisions Pauline Dodgson–Katiyo: In the Enemy’s Camp: Women Representing Male Violence in Zimbabwe’s Wars Chantal Kwast–Greff: Shared Place and Maimed Bodies: Flesh of the Past, Soul of the Future (or Vice-Versa) in Once Were Warriors Bärbel Czennia: Historical Trauma, lieu de mémoire, Source of Collective Renewal: Parihaka in the Poetic Imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand Writing Women Leila Abouzeid: Becoming a Writer in Morocco Kifah Hanna: Middle Eastern Women’s Roles Transformed: The Gendered Spaces of Ghādah al-Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah Bernadette Falzon: Going Through Twentieth-Century Malta in the Company of Francis Ebejer’s Heroines Taiwo Oloruntoba–Oju: Aesthetic (Dis)Continuities in the African Gendered Space: The Example of Younger Nigerian Women’s Writing Christine Vogt–William: Smells, Skins, and Spices: Indian Spice Shops as Gendered Diasporic Spaces in the Novels of Indian Women Writers of the Diaspora Maureen Lynch Pèrcopo: Generational Change: Women and Writing in the Novels of Thea Astley Islands and the Sea Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Maria Grech Ganado, Immanuel Mifsud, Norbert Bugeja: Poems from Malta Stella Borg Barthet: Currents and Swells in Maltese Identity: Representations of Community in Maltese Poetry in English Since Independence Kevin Stephen Magri: Finding Nemo: Puzzling Maltese Identity in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” Melanie A. Murray: The Sea and the Erosion of Cultural Identity in Romesh Gunesekera’s Reef  Saviour Catania and Ivan Callus: The Otherless Other, or The Anonymity of Water: Unmapping Ondaatje’s ‘Sand Sea’ Self in Minghella’s The English Patient Isabel Moutinho: The Sea and the Changing Nature of Cultural Identity Thomas Bonnici: Diaspora in Caryl Phillips’s Crossing the River (1993) Adrian Grima:  “They are us”: Interview with Caryl Phillips Shared Spaces Hilary P. Dannenberg: Sharing Media Spaces: The Kumars at No. 42 Devon Campbell–Hall: Writing Second-Generation Migrant Identity in Meera Syal’s Fiction Amrit Biswas: Is ‘Sharing Places’ Viable in a Postmodern World Order? Salman Rushdie’s Novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet T. Vijay Kumar: Sharing Nation Space: Representations of India Janne Korkka: Exploring Boundaries: The North in Western Canadian Writing Pilar Cuder–Domínguez: Sharing Quebec: Lorena Gale’s Je me souviens and George Elliott Clarke’s Quebecité George Elliott Clarke: Towards a Pedagogy of African-Canadian Literature Notes on Contributors Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210906689879,"sku":"9789042027664","price":138.84,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shared-waters-soundings-in-postcolonial-literatures-9789042027664","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}