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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
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- 28.2 2006 – Derek Walcott
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 28.2 (“Derek Walcott”) is an exceptional issue devoted to the poetic works of Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize for Literature. The volume includes an original address by Walcott, as well as a discussion between Walcott and fellow Caribbean writer E.A. Markham. The essays are a selection of papers from the international conference at the Sorbonne Nouvelle on 17-18 March 2006 in which Walcott participated. Many of the contributors are specialists in the field of Caribbean literature and acknowledged Walcott specialists, and they discuss issues such as intertextuality, polyphony, performance, writing and reading practices, poetry, language, and society, as well as questions of reception in an age of an increasingly transnational readership.
Derek Walcott: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Contextualizing Walcott [Full text] Bruce King
The Use of Myths in Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems 1948-1984 [Full text] Jean-Pierre Durix
Between Heteroglossia and Irony: Walcott’s “crystal of ambiguities” [Full text] Paula Burnett
The Circulation of Metaphor in Derek Walcott’s Poetry [Full text] Paul Breslin
Troping the Voice-print: Derek Walcott’s Rhetoric of Performance [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Fatal Attractors: Adam, Homer, Shakespeare, Defoe, Walcott, and Re-Righting the Caribbean [Full text] Chantal Zabus
Creole Baroque in Derek Walcott’s Archipelagic Imagery [Full text] Joanny Moulin
“My pen replaced a brush”: Derek Walcott’s Tiepolo’s Hound and Brushing History against the Grain [Full text] Maria Cristina Fumagalli
Derek Walcott and E.A. Markham Read and Talk [Full text] Edward Archibald Markham
Review Essay
Kadija Sesay, ed., Write Black, Write British: From Post Colonial to Black British Literature [Full text] Bruce King
PubDate: 2022-01-15
- 29.1 2006 – Strange/Stranger
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 29.1 (Strange/Stranger) deals with such widespread notions as “strangeness”, “otherness” , “the other”, “foreignness” and “the foreign”. This topic is central to the current preoccupations of scholars in the field of postcolonial literature and theory and may explain the wide geographical range of the articles concerned. These in effect cover every major region relating to the former British Empire: Asia (5), Africa (1), Australia (2), the Caribbean (2), and Canada (1). It also explains the variety of approaches taken by contributors, whether thematic (the use of sex and myth as paradigms of postcolonial tensions), formal (the postmodernist recourse to textual recycling or dialogism), or socio-cultural (the anthology as a meta-literary statement revelatory of the postcolonial writer’s problematic relationship with the literary tradition he has inherited). One may also mention the variety of genres and forms selected for consideration, extending from the fore-mentioned anthologies to the biographical text, passing through the novel, the short story, the verse fable and poetry.
Strange/Stranger: Preface [Full text] Philip Whyte
What Remains Foreign in World Literature' The Tale of Two Anthologies of Indian literature [Full text] Cécile Léonard
The Shapeless Self in Salman Rushdie’s Works [Full text] Hédi Ben Abbes
Espousing the Strange and the Familiar: Vikram Seth’s Two Lives [Full text] Geetha Ganapathy-Doré
Foreigners at Home: Female Characters in Chandani Lokugé’s Turtle Nest and Punyakante Wijenaike’s Giraya [Full text] Nelly Gillet
Sex Encounters of the Strange Kind – Forms of Postcolonial Discourse in Three Australian Novels [Full text] Xavier Pons
The Myth of Adamastor: the Ambivalent Metaphor of Otherness in South African Literature [Full text] Richard Samin
The Problematic Location of the Text in Nalo Hopkinson’s “Riding the Red” and “Red Rider” [Full text] Marie-Annick Montout
Hybridity, Strangeness, and Foreignness in Suniti Namjoshi’s Fabulist Imagination [Full text] Suhasini Vincent-Prabakar
Writing the Outsider Within: Interned Language in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field [Full text] Charlotte Sturgess
Crossing and Pushing Boundaries of Strangeness in Contemporary Aboriginal Poetry [Full text] Estelle Castro
Derek Walcott’s Another Life, or Writing the Self into a Distance [Full text] Kerry-Jane Wallart
Review Essay
Antonia Navarro-Tejero, Gender and Caste in the Anglophone Indian Novels of Arundhati Roy and Githa Hariharan, Feminist Issues in Cross-Cultural Perspectives [Full text] Geetha Ganapathy-Doré
PubDate: 2022-01-14
- 29.2 2007 – Antipodes
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Antipodes: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Inertia Creeps: Hesitancy in Janet Frame’s Short Fiction [Full text] Joel Gwynne
Janet Frame: ‘Keel and Kool’ or Autobiogra/fiction [Full text] Claire Bazin
Her father’s daughter' Katherine Mansfield’s Lists [Full text] Melissa C. Reimer
‘The Final Frontier’: Exploring Language and Consciousness in David Malouf’s An Imaginary Life [Full text] Lamia Tayeb
Lindsey Collen’s The Rape of Sita: Re-writing as Ethics [Full text] Eileen Williams-Wanquet
Family and Identity in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction, in particular A Distant Shore [Full text] Bénédicte Ledent
Niyi Osundare and the Marginalised Majority in Songs of the Season [Full text] Oyeniyi Okunoye
Re-(W)righting the Nation: Will the Real Winnie Mandela and Robert McBride Please Stand Up' [Full text] Lisa Combrinck and Rosemary Gray
What is CLS and Why Do They Say Such Terrible Things about it' [Full text] Thomas Samson
Interview with Gambian writer Lenrie Peters [Full text] Benaouda Lebdai and Lenrie Peters
Reviews
Angelo Righetti, ed., Theory and Practice of the Short Story: Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific [Full text] Mark Williams
Charlotte Sturgess, ed., The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction [Full text] Igor Maver
Daniel Coleman, White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada [Full text] Claire Omhovère
PubDate: 2022-01-08
- 30.1 2007 – Behind the Scenes
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 30.1 (“Behind the Scenes”) considers the novel as a stage and explores strategies of avoidance, ambiguity, and irony as ways to skirt censorship – be it Freudian or political. The studies revisit Fanon’s concept of white mask, address filmic illusion in the world of Bollywood, or problematize the literary codes of realism in a postcolonial context.
Behind the Scenes: Foreword [Full text] Geetha Ganapathy-Doré and Benaouda Lebdai
‘Nothing is worse than what we can imagine’: Secrecy and Allegory in J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians and Disgrace [Full text] Cécile Birks
Revelation and Veridiction: Modes of Disclosure in Alex La Guma’s In the Fog of the Season’s End and Mark Behr’s The Smell of Apples [Full text] Richard Samin
“I have to work right through this white way of thinking” – the Deconstruction of Discourses of Whiteness in Kim Scott’s Benang [Full text] Xavier Pons
Behind the Seine and Other Scenery: African and European Male Intimacies in Western Cities [Full text] Chantal Zabus
The Resilient Opacity of Vassanji’s The In-Between World of Vikram Lall [Full text] Françoise Král
The Treatment of Background in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day [Full text] Philip Whyte
Celluloid Dreams in Shashi Tharoor’s Show Business [Full text] Suhasini Vincent
The Author at Work – Two Short Stories by Janet Frame [Full text] Alice Braun
Review Essays
Geoffrey V. Davis and Anne Fuchs, eds., Staging New Britain: Aspects of Black and South Asian British Theatre Practice [Full text] James Gibbs
Jane Stafford and Mark Williams, Maoriland: New Zealand Literature, 1872-1914 [Full text] Christine Lorre
Gilles Teulié, ed., Religious Writings & War / Les discours religieux et la guerre [Full text] Suzanne Bray
Peter Morey and Alex Tickell, Alternative Indias, Writing, Nation and Communalism [Full text] Geetha Ganapathy-Doré
T. J. Cribb, ed., The Power of the Word / La puissance du verbe: The Cambridge Colloquia [Full text] Katalin Egri Ku-Mesu ...
PubDate: 2022-01-07
- 44.2 2022 – Alexis Wright
Abstract: This special issue on Alexis Wright’s work includes ten academic articles, seven of which focus on Wright’s Carpentaria (2006), while three discuss the author’s two other novels – Plains of Promise (1997) and The Swan Book (2013) – and oeuvre as a whole. The issue also contains art and poetry by Australian Indigenous creative artists, as well as the reprint of a review of Carpentaria and a reflexive essay on translating Wright’s works into Chinese. From the centrality of Indigenous epistemologies in Wright’s oeuvre to her narrative creativity, representation of country, commitment to a sovereignty of the mind, humour, and refusal of genres, the various contributions to the special issue propose original analyses and approaches to better understand Wright’s nuanced, complex novels and non-fiction works.
Alexis Wright: Celebrating Storytelling and Interconnectedness. Introduction [Full text] Marilyne Brun and Estelle Castro-Koshy
bodies of water [Full text] Judy Watson
Walingera (Old Woman) [Full text] Romaine Moreton
Wiradjuri Dictionary [Full text] Jeanine Leane
An Indigenous Grand Narrative Voice: Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria as Indigenous Epistemology [Full text] Eugenia Flynn
The Creative Opportunity of Carpentaria [Full text] Angus Fletcher
Story-Making, Story-Telling and Story-Keeping in Carpentaria [Full text] Adam Shoemaker
Wright’s Poetic Prose Epic [Full text] Françoise Palleau-Papin
On the Brink of Possibility: Alexis Wright’s Tragicomic Novel [Full text] Richard Carr
Questions of Genre, Refusal, and Cultural Adaptation in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria [Full text] Michael R. Griffiths
Regional Dissensions and the Construction of Locality in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria [Full text] Salhia Ben-Messahel
The Translation and Reception of Alexis Wright’s Fiction in China [Full text] Li Yao
Perception Revitalisation and Resistance in The Swan Book [Full text] Temiti Lehartel
Alexis Wright’s fiction, Aboriginal Realism, and the Sovereignty of the Indigenous Mind [Full text] Cornelis Martin Renes
Alexis Wright’s “Vision Splendid”: Aboriginal Economics, Climate Justice, and a Gaian World Literature [Full text] Lynda Ng
Reviews
PubDate: 2022-01-01
- 30.2 2008 – Open-topic issue
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 30.2 is an eclectic open-topic issue that covers a variety of genres and a vast range of postcolonial writers (Soyinka and Achebe, but also Lahiri and Mukherjee) emerging from multiple cultural and geographical areas, from Ireland (Friel) to New Zealand (Ihimaera), both diasporic and rooted, and thus engaging in dialogic relations with amorphous readerships.
Open-topic issue: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
The Postcolonial Picturesque: The Poetry of Northeast India [Full text] Pramod K. Nayar
Soyinka’s The Strong Breed as a Tragedy of Hope [Full text] Thierry Dubost
“Nigeria is Bus is Stage”: The Bus as Metaphor in Contemporary Nigerian Literature [Full text] Daria Tunca
“Shout it Out. Nobody’s Listening”: (Re)Membering Postcolonial Ireland in Brian Friel’s Translations [Full text] Laura Wright
Exclusion and Revolt in Witi Ihimaera’s Whale Rider [Full text] Irene Visser
Smiling with Blood on the Tongue: Acceptable Sacrifices and the Annihilating Feminine in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine [Full text] Danel Olson
Rhetoric, Culture, and Politics in Chinua Achebe’s Traditional World [Full text] Baydallaye Kane
The Intellectual at the Crossroads: an Analysis of Ayi Kwei Armah’s Fragments [Full text] Kasimi Djiman
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: The Accident of Inheritance [Full text] Delphine Munos
Reviews
Hena Maes-Jelinek, The Labyrinth of Universality: Wilson Harris’s Visionary Art of Fiction [Full text] Jean-Pierre Durix
David Ellis, Writing Home: Black Writing in Britain Since the War [Full text] Bénédicte Ledent
Lars Eckstein, Re-Membering the Black Atlantic - On the Poetics and Politics of Literary Memory [Full text] Judith Misrahi-Barak
Cheryl Stobie, Somewhere in the Double Rainbow: Representations of Bisexuality in Post-Apartheid Novels [Full text] Chantal Zabus
PubDate: 2021-12-31
- 31.1 2008 – Resurgence
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 31.1 (“Resurgence”) adopted the topic of the 48th SAES congress in Orléans in May 2008 where Jane Urquhart was guest of honour. A workshop was devoted to her writing, as reflected in the section on cultural resurgence and the role of symbolic objects in this process in Canadian literature. The issue also explores the resurgence of history and the metamorphoses it leads to, and the impact of the resurgence of the past on artistic creation.
Resurgence: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Resurgence: Introduction [Full text] Christine Lorre
Signs of resurgence
Mourning/Mocking Browning: The Resurgence of a Romantic aesthetics in Jane Urquhart’s The Whirlpool (1986) [Full text] Catherine Lanone and Claire Omhovère
Resurgences of the Extra-Textual and Metatextual in Jane Urquhart’s The Stone Carvers [Full text] Marta Dvorak
“And now another story surfaced”: Re-Emerging Voices, Stories and Secrets in Alice Munro’s “Family Furnishings” [Full text] Corinne Bigot
History, resurgence, metamorphosis
Einstein, Evelyn Waugh and the Wapisiana Indians: Ventriloquism and Eclipses in Pauline Melville’s The Ventriloquist’s Tale [Full text] Kerry-Jane Wallart
Nongqawuse Resurrected: Legend and History in Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness [Full text] Richard Samin
“The past a repast”: Past and Present in Butterfly Burning and The Stone Virgins by Yvonne Vera [Full text] Fiona McCann
Resurgence in artistic creation
The Resurgence of Prison Imagery in Breyten Breytenbach’s A Veil of Footsteps [Full text] Sandra Saayman
The Hangman’s Game: Karen King-aribisala’s “Diary of Creation” [Full text] Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
Resurgence and Creative Resistance in Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms at Night [Full text] Patricia Donatien-Yssa
Scarlet Ibises and the Poetics of Relation: Perse, Walcott and Glissant [Full text] Kathleen M. Gyssels
Reviews
Anke Bartels and Dirk Wiemann, eds. Global Fragments: (Dis)...
PubDate: 2021-12-30
- 31.2 2009 – South Asian Fiction / Anita Desai
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 31.2 (“South Asian Fiction/Anita Desai”) offers an overview of contemporary Indian and Pakistani fiction, but also of Tamil Dalit writing. It provides a multifaceted discussion focusing on writers ranging from Ceylon-based Leonard Woolf to Ghosh, Ondaatje, Rushdie, and the 2008 Man Booker Prize recipient Aravind Adiga. A section is devoted to internationally renowned Anita Desai.
South Asian Fiction / Anita Desai: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Contemporary South Asian Writing: An Overview
Recent Trends in Indian English Fiction [Full text] Shyamala A. Narayan
Covert Operations in Pakistani Fiction [Full text] Muneeza Shamsie
Sundara Ramaswamy’s “About Dalit Literature”: Text and Context [Full text] V. Bharathi Harishankar
Place and Displacement
‘Out of Place’' The Poetics of Space in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide and Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost [Full text] John Thieme
“Falling off” the Urban Map: Cartographic Divisions and Travel in Salman Rushdie’s The Moor’s Last Sigh [Full text] Vassilena Parashkevova
The White Tiger: The Beggar’s Booker [Full text] Sneharika Roy
Performative Symbols and Structures in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things [Full text] Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru
Excavating Memories and Unlayering History: The Archaeological Narrative in Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines [Full text] Sabine Lauret
“Dismantling The Colonial Dream” in Leonard Woolf’s Autobiography Growing [Full text] Cynthia Carey
Anita Desai
The Politics of Language and the Poetics of Creolization in Anita Desai’s In Custody [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Incorporating Otherness: Food Imagery in Anita Desai’s In Custody [Full text] Claire Omhovère
Anita Desai’s In Custody and the English Legacy [Full text] Colette Selles
Generic Displacement: Difference and Repetition in Anita Desai’s Indian Campus Novel [Full text] Chr...
PubDate: 2021-12-24
- 32.1 2009 – Essays and Trials
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 32.1 (“Essays and Trials”) is an issue devoted to the protean genre of the essay, deployed in both scientific and literary discourse in often fluid, hybrid ways. Its potential to take on multiple forms of interstitiality allows it to interrogate concerns at the heart of both postcolonialism and postmodernism, namely the conjunctive and disjunctive relations of authority and authorship, and the dynamics of derivation, transformation, and deviation.
Essays and Trials: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Essays and Trials: Introduction [Full text] Kerry-Jane Wallart
Hearing Voices in George Lamming’s The Pleasures of Exile and Sam Selvon’s The Lonely Londoners [Full text] Kathie Birat
Reassessing Genres in Hugh MacLennan’s “The Changed Functions of Fiction and Non-Fiction” [Full text] André Dodeman
An Essay on B.S. Johnson: Brian Castro’s Drift [Full text] Marilyne Brun
J.M. Coetzee’s Diary of a Bad Year: Between Essay Writing and Fiction [Full text] Richard Samin
Refracting the “India idea” through the Prism of English Rhetoric: The Essays of Amartya Sen and Salman Rushdie [Full text] Catherine Pesso-Miquel
‘Such Plotting! Such Symbolism!’: Narratives of Power in V.S. Naipaul’s Essays [Full text] Cécile Girardin
Metaphors of Fine Arts in Amitav Ghosh’s Dancing in Cambodia, At Large in Burma [Full text] Suhasini Vincent
Novels and Essays: South Africa in the Work of Olive Schreiner [Full text] Susan Barrett
“First hand becomes second hand”: André Brink’s A Dry White Season [Full text] Mélanie Joseph-Vilain
The “seeds of madness” in Wide Sargasso Sea: The Novel and its Avatars [Full text] Catherine Rovera
Reviews
Helen Tiffin, ed., Five Emus to the King of Siam: Environment and Empire [Full text] Graham Huggan
Marc Maufort and David O’Donnell, eds., Performing Aotearoa: New Zealand Theatre and Drama in an Age of Transition [Full text] Jean Anderson
PubDate: 2021-12-23
- 32.2 2010 – Mutations
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies 32.2 (“Mutations”) contributes to recent interrogations concerning postcolonial theory in mutation, unravelling and rearticulating itself within the contexts of an increasingly globalized world system. The contributors address the need to unsettle traditional postcolonial frameworks and engage with the frictional border-zones consubstantial with models of circulation. The articles engage with texts which do not fit into the standard “writing back” model of postcolonial intertextuality nor partake in a conventionalized anxiety of influence. The authors consider the complex dialogism ranging from (af)filiation to self-reflexive hypertextuality. They set up a fruitful dialogue on the mystique of traditional culture and cultural continuity, foregrounding the intra-cultural fissures which challenge the social cohesion of older notions of mapping.
Mutations: Foreword [Full text] Marta Dvorak
Homage and Revision: Zadie Smith’s Use of E.M. Forster in On Beauty [Full text] Lourdes Lopez-Ropero
Censuring the Praise of Alienation: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, No Longer At Ease, and Arrow of God [Full text] Kevin Frank
A Poetics of Laughter: Characterizing the African Comic Novel [Full text] Maik Nwosu
Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Displacement, and Non-Indigenous Belonging: Suburbia in Tim Winton’s “Aquifer” and Liam Davison’s “Neary’s Horse” [Full text] Nathanael O’Reilly
“My Name was Christian.” C.K. Stead, Religion, Culture and National Identity [Full text] Mike Grimshaw
Strategies of Colour, Mysticism of Form in Anita Desai’s In Custody [Full text] Anne Le Guellec
Rethinking Androcentric Representations of Women in African Literature [Full text] Omar Sougou
“I am making a start; or, if not that, making a gesture”: J. M. Coetzee’s Aesthetics of Tentativeness [Full text] Mathilde Rogez
Wordsworth and Nigerian Poetry: Niyi Osundare as a Case in Point [Full text] Kola Eke
Reviews
Anne Holden Rønning and Lene Johannessen, eds., Readings of the Particular. The Postcolonial in the Postnational [Full text] Saskia Schabio
Alistair Fox, The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction [Full text] Peter Marsden
PubDate: 2021-12-17
