Postcolonial Past & Present

Anne Collett is an Associate Professor of English Literatures at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She is former editor of Kunapipi: journal of postcolonial writing & culture, and author of numerous essays on Caribbean, Australian and Canadian poetry.Leigh Dale is Honorary Professor of English at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and author of books on self harm and the history of teaching English literatures in universities, as well as essays on postcolonial literatures (mainly Australian).

• ForewordAlbert WendtIllustrations and AppendicesNotes on Contributors and EditorsPart 1: Collision, Connection, and Change1 Textiles from the Sea of IslandsSacred Heart Nuns and Craft Advisers in Papua New Guinea and AustraliaDiana Wood Conroy2 Reading Across the Pacific, Reorienting “North” Diana Brydon3 Nationalism from BelowFolk Nationalist Formations of Mukunda DasDeb Narayan Bandyopadhyay4 Xavier Herbert’s EnlightenmentThe Solomon Islands Nightmare, 1928Russell McDougall5 Regime Change Literature and Transitional Justice Tony Simões da SilvaPart 2: Case Studies6 Laughter and the Indigenous Trickster Aesthetics of Marie Munkara’s Every Secret ThingAnne Brewster7 Claude McKay and the Pestilential CityThe Metropolis, the Clinic, the CrisisAnne Collett8 Bodily ClothThe Making Process in Artworks by Elsje van Keppel and Jane WhiteleyKay Lawrence9 Overseas and UndergroundTravel and Travellers in Janet Frame’s FictionDorothy Jones10 “Indias of the mind”Maps, Mothers, and Ethnicized Wonder Woman Outfits in Australian–Indian FictionMeeta Chatterjee–Padmanabhan11 Singing the Spiral of TimeAlbert Wendt’s The Adventures of VelaBill Ashcroft12 Comparative History in PolynesiaSome Challenges of Studying the Past in the Postcolonial PresentTeresia Teaiwa and Tekura Moeka‘aAfterwordLydia Wevers