Discourses of empire and commonwealth
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Discourses of empire and commonwealth
（Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English, 192）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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In Discourses of Empire and Commonwealth a range of prominent writers and critics reflect on the legacy of imperialism and the role of writers in forging a new, more cosmopolitan identity. The contributors, writing about a wide range of countries, affirm the freedom of the human spirit, even within unjust or oppressive social systems. They show the power of words to illuminate injustices and unite different peoples.
Salman Rushdie famously declared that Commonwealth Literature has had its day: this book provides a vital antidote to this idea. Editors Sandra Robinson and Alastair Niven have put together this mixture of personal reflections, critical overviews, historical re-evaluations and creative works to illustrate the vitality of this genre.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Caliban's Dream, by ALASTAIR NIVEN
ASPECTS OF COMMONWEALTH LITERATURE
Commonwealth Literature Studies: Writers versus Critics, by HENA MAES-JELINEK
Out the Box?, by DENNIS WALDER
First Language: Yours, Mine, Ours, by SANJUKTA DASGUPTA
Cristobal Colon/Cristoforo Colombo/Christopher Columbus: What's in a Name? Translation and Politics in a Postcolonial World, by AMANDA HOPKINSON
Gitanjali 100 Years On: Tagore for Today and for the Future, by WILLIAM RADICE
Folk, Modern, Oriental, Dramatic or Communist: Translating Tagore into Hungarian, by IMRE BANGHA
Tagore's Poetry: What It Can Teach Us, by KETAKI KUSHARI DYSON
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL
Empire and Me: An Indian Testimony, by HARISH TRIVEDI
My Life Journey into the Empire of Nobodies, Rogues, "Peoples without History" and Associated History Wars: Origins of the Fatal Attraction of an Historian to 'Non-history', by IAN DUFFIELD
Growing Up in Malta and Empire Influence, by DANIEL MASSA
The View from Elsewhere: Fiji, by SATENDRA NANDAN
A Post-Imperial Life, by KAYE WHITEMAN
The View from Elsewhere: Australia, by PETER PORTER
Many Worlds, Many Selves, by MEIRA CHAND
The View from Elsewhere: Egypt, by PENELOPE LIVELY
ASPECT S OF EMPIRE
A Sweet, Just, Boyish Master: The Repressed Soul of the Empire-Man, by JAKE ARNOTT
Tagore, the Elmhirsts, and Dartington: Some Unexpected Educational Connections, by URSULA KING
His Natural Life and Natural Rights: An Inquiry into Philosophical, Literary, and Legal Themes, by SANDRA ROBINSON
CREATIVE WORKS
Cactus Town, by AAMER HUSSEIN
A Season of Disillusion, by MARGARET BUSBY
Heaven's Edge, by ROMESH GUNESEKERA
Interrogation, by JACK MAPANJE
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