New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing: Critical and Creative Contours

Copyright

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Tilling the Fields of Postcolonial Literature

ESSAYS IN CRITICISM

THE CARIBBEAN

A Perpetual Surprise: East Indians in the West Indies

The Present Absence of the Father in the Poetry of Derek Walcott

From “The Rivers of Babylon” to Un Plat de porc aux bananes vertes: Intricacies of the Postcolonial and Postwar Jewish Condition

The Rock: Island and Identity in Barbados

ENGLAND

The Many Voices of Post-Colonial London: Language and Identity in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth (2000) and Andrea Levy’s Small Island (2004)

A Postcolonial Passage to England: Michael Ondaatje’s The Cat’s Table

SOUTH-EAST ASIA

“A Message in a Bottle”: On the Pleasures of Translating Arun Kolatkar into French

Jejuri–Bandra–Jejuri: Strolling with Kolatkar

Intertext, Architext, and Métissage: Anita Desai’s Negotiation of Cultural Gaps

Pakistani English Novels in the New Millennium: Migration, Geopolitics, and Tribal Tales

NEW ZEALAND AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

Fantasy, Myth, and the Pacific World: Albert Wendt’s The Adventures of Vela

Read Instructions and Shake Carefully Before Use: Fragmented Wholes in Narratives by Bill Manhire and Gregory O’Brien

“The Biggest Adventure”: Indigenous People and White Men’s Wars

CREATIVE WRITING

Chinese Mothers

Cabral

Memoirs: for Bruce

The Book of Bruce

Fabulous Eyelids

For Bruce (& Adèle)

Past Dawn

Puppet’s Life Ends on String

A Sheet Like Snow

Threshold

I Love You (From Mofussil Notebook)

Back

A Mute Biography

Wonder of the Age

Habits: Remnants

They Say, They Never Wrote

Conch

Notes on the Contributors and Editors

Index