soundings in postcolonial literatures
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Borg Barthet, Stella > (ed.)
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- WER 54 2009
- Thesaurus
- literatuur, poëzie, onderzoek, media, postkolonialisme, geweld, oorlog en vrede, diaspora, wereld, bundel, essay
- Description
- Collection of twenty-nine essays, presented at the meeting of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, held in Malta, March 2005. This 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 form Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by divers authors and filmmakers.