Comparing Postcolonial Literatures: Dislocations

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-17
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Postcolonial Studies and Ireland....Pages 21-30
Crossing the Hyphen of History: the Scottish Borders of Anglo-Irishness....Pages 31-42
The Politics of Hybridity: Some Problems with Crossing the Border....Pages 43-55
Front Matter....Pages 57-57
Inside-Out: Literature, Cultural Identity and Irish Migration to England....Pages 59-69
States of Dislocation: William Trevor’s Felicia’s Journey and Maurice Leitch’s Gilchrist....Pages 70-80
‘It’s a Free Country’: Visions of Hybridity in the Metropolis....Pages 81-92
I Came All the Way from Cuba So I Could I Speak Like This? Cuban and Cubanamerican Literatures in the US....Pages 93-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
Border Anxieties: Race and Psychoanalysis....Pages 107-121
Nationalism’s Brandings: Women’s Bodies and Narratives of the Partition....Pages 122-133
Internalized Exiles: Three Bolivian Writers....Pages 134-143
Writing Other Lives: Native American (Post)coloniality and Collaborative (Auto)biography....Pages 144-158
‘The Limits of Goodwill’: the Values and Dangers of Revisionism in Keneally’s ‘Aboriginal’ Novels....Pages 159-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
The Trickster at the Border: Cross-Cultural Dialogues in the Caribbean....Pages 177-192
Between Speech and Writing: ‘La nouvelle litterature antillaise’?....Pages 193-204
Hybrid Texts: Family, State and Empire in a Poem by Black Cuban Poet Excilia Saldaña1....Pages 205-218
Beyond Manicheism: Derek Walcott’s Henri Christophe and Dream on Monkey Mountain....Pages 219-228
‘Canvas of Blood’: Okigbo‘s African Modernism....Pages 229-239
Closing Statement: Apprenticeship to the Furies....Pages 240-251
Back Matter....Pages 252-283