Comparing Postcolonial Literatures

NARA ARAUJO Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Havana, currently Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonama Metropolitana, Mexico CityAIDAN ARROWSMITH Lecturer in Literary Studies, Staffordshire UniversityCATHERINE DAVIES Professor of Spanish, University of ManchesterSUSAN FORSYTH Ph.D. student, Christ Church College, CanterburySAM HAIGH Lecturer in French Studies, University of WarwickWILSON HARRIS Distinguished writer and essayistLIAM HARTE Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies, St Mary's University College, LondonC.L. INNES Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, University of KentWILLY MALEY Reader in English Literature, University of GlasgowDAVID MARRIOTT Lecturer, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of LondonLANCE PETTITT Lecturer, St Mary's University College, LondonDAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer in English and Deputy Director of the African Studies Unit, University of LeedsKEITH RICHARDS Lecturer in Spanish, University of LeedsSUJALA SINGH Lecturer in English, University of SouthamptonGERRY SMYTH Lecturer in Cultural History, Liverpool John Moores UniversityGERALDINE STONEHAM Senior Lecturer, South Bank UniversityJOHN THIEME Professor and Head of English Studies, South Bank UniversityDENISE VERNON Teacher of Drama and Cultural Studies, University of Salford

• Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction; A.Bery & P.Murray PART I: ON THE BORDER Postcolonial Studies in Ireland; C.L.Innes Crossing the Hyphen of History: The Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness; W.Maley The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border; G.Smyth PART II: DIASPORAS Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England; A.Arrowsmith States of Dislocation: William Trevor's Felicia's Journey and Maurice Leitch's Gilchrist ; L.Harte & L.Pettitt It's a Free Country: Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis; G.Stoneham I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US; N.Araújo PART III: INTERNALIZED EXILES Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis; D.Marriott Nationalism's Brandings: Women's Bodies and Narratives of the Partition; S.Singh Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers; K.Richards Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post) Coloniality and Collaborative (Auto) Biography; S.Forsyth 'The Limits of Goodwill': The Value and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally's 'Aboriginal' Novels; D.Vernon PART IV: VERSIONS OF HYBRIDITY The Trickster at the Border: Cross-cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean; P.Murray Between Speech and Writing: 'La Nouvelle Littérature Antillaise'?; S.Haigh Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldana; C.Davies Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott's Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain ; J.Thieme 'Canvas of Blood': Okigbo's African Modernism; D.Richards Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies; W.Harris

'...a timely and important collection of essays which challenges the intellectual and disciplinary borders of postcolonialism while attending to a variety of literatures often neglected in studies of postcolonial culture...As well as constituting a busy and intelligent contribution to the field, Comparing Postcolonial Literatures shows the way forward for postcolonial studies by pushing against its disciplinary borders in a healthy spirit of self-critique and innovation.' - John McLeod, University of Leeds