Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture

An investigation of the status of postcolonial studies today

Table of Contents:
Postcolonizing the Commonwealth: Studies in Literature and Culture, edited by Rowland Smith Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Rowland Smith 1. Postcolonial/Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference Edward Baugh 2. Proximities: From Asymptote to Zeugma Alan Lawson 3. Looking in from ""Beyond"": Commonwealth Studies in French Universities Jacqueline Bardolph 4. Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent Stephen Slernon 5. Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Métissage in Breyten Breytenbach's Return to Paradise Johan U. Jacobs 6. Inheritance in Question: The Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction Sheila Roberts 7. Natal Women's Letters in the 1850s: Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and ""Second-World"" Ambi/valence Margaret J. Daymond 8. Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo's Novel And They Don't Lie Cherry Clayton 9. Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age Nima Naghibi 10. FAS and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women? Cheryl Suzack 11. Can Rohinton Mistry's Realism Rescue the Novel? Laura Moss 12. Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie's Shame Susan Spearey 13. A Vision of Unity: Braithwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie, and the Quest for Authenticity Mac Fenwick 14. Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry J. Edward Chamberlin Index Contributors Jacqueline Bardolph, the former Dean of Arts at the University of Nice, died in 1999. Edward Baugh is a member of the Department of Literatures in English at the University of the West Indies (Mona) and (frequently) its Chair. J. Edward Chamberlin is a member of the English Department at the University of Toronto. Cherry Clayton has taught at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and at the University of Guelph. Margaret Daymond is a member of the English Department at the University of Natal, Durban. Mac Fenwick is a graduate student of English at Queen's University. Johan U. Jacobs is Head of the School of Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Human Sciences at the University of Natal, Durban. Alan Lawson is Deputy Director of the Graduate School and Dean of Postgraduate Students at the University of Queensland in Brisbane. Laura Moss is a member of the English Department at the University of Manitoba. Nima Naghibi is a graduate student of English at the University of Alberta. Sheila Roberts is a member of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Stephen Slemon is a member of the English Department at the University of Alberta. Rowland Smith is the Vice-President: Academic at Wilfrid Laurier University. Susan Spearey is a member of the English Department at Brock University. Cheryl Suzack is a graduate student of English at the University of Alberta.

About the Author :
Rowland Smith is a professor of English and Vice-President: Academic at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Review :
``What is valuable about Postcolonizing the Commonwealth is its inclusion of topics that are often missing from discussions and teaching of Postcolonial literatures....[which makes the book] so different from the volumes published by such mainstream publishing houses as Routledge....When read as a snapshot of what three generations of scholars in the field of Postcolonial studies in five different areas of the world are doing as teachers, theorists, and administrators, the book forces us to think about the material conditions of academic production and how fraught they can be.'' -- Arun Mukherjee, York University, English Studies in Canada -- 200507