Xenophobic memories : otherness in postcolonial constructions of the past

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Xenophobic memories : otherness in postcolonial constructions of the past / ed. by Monika Gomille ; Klaus Stierstorfer

Dades bibliogràfiques
Altres autors:	Gomille, Monika (Editor), Stierstorfer, Klaus (Editor)
Format:	Llibre
Idioma:	German English
Publicat:	Heidelberg : Winter, 2003
Col·lecció:	Anglistische Forschungen 319
Continguts/components:	17 registres

1. Arrested memories : exoticism and colonial nostalgia in the travel writing of Robert Cunninghame Graham (1852 - 1936)

2. Zionism, Xenophobia, and a gentle genocide? : or, the (not so) fearful other in "Jewish" fiction in English

3. Shreds of memory : diaspora, racial violence and the search for a past in Meena Alexander's work

4. "Naturally, their suffering is deeply connected to memory" : Caryl Phillip's "The Nature of Blood" as a grand narrative of racism and xenophobia

5. The "postcolonial univerity novel" in Britain : including the excluded in a conventionalised form

6. Locating the other/self : memory and place in Michelle Cliff's "Abeng"

7. Translating cultures - translating histories : stories of Africa

8. Who am "I" and who is "the other", xenophobia and xenophilia : constructions of memory, history and identity in Xu Xi's "The Unwalled City" and Shirley Lim's "Joss and Gold"

9. Ancestral memory : the cases of Kazuo Ishiguro and J. M. Coetzee

10. "The sea is history" : the Atlantic as mnemonic site in contemporary novels on the slave trade

11. "Matching orphaned socks" : cross-cultural memories in Bharati Mukherjee's novels

12. Finding brown stranges really stimulating : xenophobia and the second generation in Zadie Smith's "White Teeth"

13. Of xenophobia, history and herbal pills : Sky Lee's "Disappearing Moon Café"

14. Henry Morton Stanley's "Cannibalism"

15. "The true and secret part of the history is left to me" : colonial oppression and selective historiography in Peter Carey's "True History of the Kelly Gang"

16. Excluding the other from within : protective effects of cooking in memories of the past in Romesh Gunesekera's novel "Reef"

17. The materiality of the other : media of remembrance in Michael Ondaatje's historical metafiction