Hardwick,Lorna (Editor) and Gillespie,Carol (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2010
Published:
New York: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
422 p., Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects and put to new uses. Includes Cashman Kerr Prince's "Divided Child, or Derek Walcott's post-colonial philology" and Emily Greenwood's "Arriving backwards : the return of The Odyssey in the English-speaking Caribbean."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
301 p., Brings together scholarship bridging ecocriticism and postcolonialism. Includes Sabine Wilke's "South America and the Caribbean. Performing tropics : Alexander von Humboldt's Ansichten der natur and the colonial roots of nature writing" and Bonnie Roos' "Rewriting Eden in Walcott's Omeros : a sea change of stories in visible silence."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Papers presented at the conference organized by the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held in 2005 in Sliema, Malta., 412 p., Includes Jogamaya Bayer's "Crossing the borders in Monica Ali's Brick lane and V.S. Naipaul's Half a life," Gen'ichiro Itakura's "Jewishness, goyishness, and blackness : Zadie Smith's The autograph man," and Lourdes López-Ropero's "The pleasures of slave food : the politics of creolization in Austin Clarke's Pigtails 'n breadfruit."
Joseph-Vilain,Mélanie (Editor), Misrahi-Barak,Judith (Editor), and Turcotte,Gerry (Author)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
Essays from an international conference held at Paul-Valéry University, Montpellier III, in November 2007, organised by the Cerpac (Centre d'étude et de recherches sur les pays du Commonwealth/Research Centre on the Commonwealth)., 481 p., Includes Anthony Carrigan's "Haunted places, development, and opposition in Kamau Brathwaite's The Namsetoura papers," Maurizio Calbi's "Writing with ghosts : Shakespearean spectrality in Derek Walcott's A branch of the Blue Nile," Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère's "Rattling Perrault's dry bones : Nalo Hopkinson's literary voodoo in Skin folk,"
Prudence Layne's "Reincarnating Legba : Caribbean writers at the crossroads,"
Timothy Weiss' "The living and the dead : translational identities in Wilson Harris's The tree of the sun," and Kerry-Jane Wallart's "The ghost in Wilson Harris's The Guyana quartet : matter that matters."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
245 p, Contents: The politics of postcolonial nationalist literature / The nation as problem and possibility / Caribbean space: Lamming, Naipaul, and federation / The novel after the nation: Nigeria after Biafra / The persistence of the nation: literature and criticism in Canada / National culture and globalization
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
259 p, Includes Veronica Brady's "Arnold apple's son of Guyana. autobiography or fiction?," Sheila Roberts' "V.S. Naipaul's identity in fact and fiction," etc.
