Transcultural English studies: theories, fictions, realities

Table of Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES......Page 18
On the Acquisition and Possession of Commonalities......Page 20
Multiple Modernities — The Transnationalization of Cultures......Page 54
Authenticity — Why We Still Need It Although It Doesn\'t Exist......Page 76
Shifting Perspectives — The Transcultural Novel......Page 92
The Dangers of Diaspora — Some Thoughts About the Black Atlantic......Page 108
The Times of India — Transcultural Temporalities in Theory and Fiction......Page 120
Lakshman\'s Journal — An Essay in Narratology and the Barbs of Transculturality......Page 134
TRANSCULTURAL REALITIES......Page 148
Broken Borders „ Migration, Modernity and English Writing —Transcultural Transformation in the Heart of Europe......Page 150
From the Belly of the Fish — Jewish Writers in English in Israel: Transcultural Perspectives......Page 168
Linguistic Dimensions of Jewish-American Literature......Page 186
Eluding Containment — Orality and the Ordnance Survey Memoir in Ireland......Page 204
Atanarjuat — Fast Running and Electronic Storytelling in the Arctic......Page 218
Manifestation of Self and/or Tribal Identity? „ Māori Writing in the Global Maelstrom......Page 238
Transcultural Perspectives in Caribbean Poetry......Page 250
TRANSCULTURAL FICTIONS......Page 266
The Location of Transculture......Page 268
“Final Passages”? — Representations of Black British History in Caryl Phillips\'s Novel and Its Television Adaptation......Page 284
Trying to Escape, Longing to Belong — Roots, Genes and Performativity in Zadie Smith\'s White Teeth and Hari Kunzru\'s The Impressionist......Page 298
Fictions of Transcultural Memory — Zulfikar Ghose\'s The Triple Mirror of the Selfas an Imaginative Reconstruction of the Self in Multiple Worlds......Page 310
Routes to the Roots — Transcultural Ramifications in Bombay Talkie......Page 326
Beyond the Contact Zone? — Mapping Transcultural Spaces in Tomson Highway\'s Kiss of the Fur Queen and Eden Robinson\'s Monkey Beach......Page 340
The Long Shadow of Tacitus — Classical and Modern Colonial Discourses in the Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Scottish Highlands......Page 356
Inter- and/or Transcultural Learning in the Foreign Language Classroom? — Theoretical Foundations and Practical Implications\n......Page 374
Towards a Cosmopolitan Readership — New Literatures in English in the Classroom......Page 390
Teaching Hanif Kureishi......Page 410
A New Dialogue at the Periphery? — Teaching Postcolonial African, Black American, and Indian Writings in India......Page 426
\nLook, See, and Say — Photographs of Africa in a Cultural  Perspective......Page 436
Notes on Contributors......Page 480