Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination

Stephanos Stephanides is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. He is a poet, critic, translator, and documentary filmmaker. Stavros S. Karayanni is Associate Professor of English at European University Cyprus. He is managing editor of the multilingual journal Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus.

• AcknowledgementsSTEPHANOS STEPHANIDES AND STAVROS S. KARAYANNI: Introduction: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination:The Intimate Estrangement of HomecomingGEOFFREY V. DAVIS: Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural ActivismELSIE CLOETE: “There’s a Meat Down There”: An Essay on English and the Environment in AfricaDIANA WOOD CONROY: Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia FELICITY WOOD: Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo“Travelling Knowledges”: ‘Practising’DEBASH REE DATTARAY: Indigenous Literatures in the Indian UniversityPADMI NI MONGIA: What About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in EnglishPAUL SHARRAD : “Ghem pona wai?”: Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea FictionPAUL STEWART: Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the PostcolonialVICTOR J. RAMRAJ : Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary StudiesRUSSELL MCDOUGALL: Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and BrumbiesNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORSINDEX

"Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination is an impressive collection for its recondite arguments and relevant case studies of translational transcultural exchange that collectively endeavour to reconfigure the vernacular and the cosmopolitan. In sum, it expands and challenges cosmopolitan’s post-Enlightenment positioning and embrace of hybridity, transculturalism, and citizenship in relation to the vernacular, while McDougall’s concluding integrationist angle moves the debate into another, related realm of enquiry. This excellent scholarly volume is a tribute to its ACLALS editors and contributors and a worthy successor to others in the Cross/Cultures series."- Janet Wilson (University of Northampton), Recherche littéraire, literary research 34, Summer 2018.