Wilson, J. M. and Ringrose, C., (eds.) (2016) New Soundings in Postcolonial Writing: Critical and Creative Contours. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. 9789004326415.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Abstract: | The title of this volume embraces the idea of ‘new soundings’ in its double meanings: ‘soundings’ in the sense of exploratory fathoming and plumbing of the ocean depths, and ‘soundings’ in the contemporary sense of sonar registrations of the seabed, made in order to hear and notate the invisible, inaudible life and activity below the surface. The metaphoric connotations of depth charges in the former usage point to the various forms of mapping, of the discoveries and expansions associated with the opening up of what were once conceived as distant lands, as well as the hazards and betrayals entailed in such colonizing. ‘Soundings’, when used in the sense of registering sound shapes and effects, implies metaphorically those acts of communication, whereby the newly charted, discovered worlds transmit their cultures, heritage and voices, receiving in return the mixed messages of those who discover and colonise. For such processes of settlement and entrenchment are fraught with contestation, involving new contact zones, encounters with Indigenous peoples, recognition of racial and ethnic differences and ideological reassessment of the nature of civilisation. The subtitle’s reference to ‘contours’ invokes the new cultural frames that emerge from such forms of contact, and the organising, reshaping and syncretising of what Homi Bhabha has called the ‘spaces between’ cultures that contact/collision provokes. Such new cultural landscaping can be found in the critical and creative writing of the last half century that embodies as well as engages with issues of the postcolonial. The subtitle also refers to the critical essays, poems and stories collected in this volume, all of which are associated with the discipline of postcolonial studies, and might be seen as products of this broad field. Just as the critical contours seek to debate and give wider visibility to postcolonialism’s major contestations, so the book’s creative contours showcase some of the movement’s significant themes and imaginative configurations. |
| Additional Information: | Essays in honour of Bruce King |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Postcolonial writing, Bruce King, Derek Walcott, Zadie Smith, Arun Kolatkar, Michael Ondaatje, Anita Desai, Albert Wendt |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature |
| Editors: | Wilson, Janet M and Ringrose, Christopher |
| Publisher: | Brill/Rodopi |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
University Faculties, Divisions and Research Centres - OLD > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 22 September 2016 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Series Name: | Cross/cultures |
| Volume: | 189 |
| Place of Publication: | Leiden |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 9789004326415 |
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| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | No |
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| References: | Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture (London: Routledge, 1994). Chakrabarty, Dipesh. “Belatedness as Possibility: Subaltern Histories, Once Again,” in The Indian Postcolonial: A Critical Reader, ed. Elleke Boehmer & Rosinka Chaudhuri (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2011): 163–76. De Souza, Eunice, ed. Nine Indian Women Poets: An Anthology (New Delhi: Oxford UP, 1997). King, Bruce. “How with the Help of Derry Jeffares, I (an American) Became a Commonwealth Literature Specialist,” in A Shaping of Connections: Commonwealth Literature Studies – Then and Now; Essays in Honour of A.N. Jeffares, ed. Hena Maes–Jelinek, Kirsten Holst Petersen & Anna Rutherford (Aarhus: Dangaroo, 1989): 19–24. ——. “New Centres of Consciousness: New, Post-colonial, and International English Literature,” in New National and Postcolonial Literatures: An Introduction, ed. Bruce King (Oxford: Clarendon, 1996): 3–28. Kolatkar, Arun. The Boatride & Other Poems, ed. Arvind Mehrotra (Mumbai: Pras, 2009). ——.Collected Poems in English, ed. Arvind Mehotra (Hexham, Northumberland: Bloodaxe, 2010). Thayil, Jeet. “One Language, Separated by the Sea,” in Fulcrum: An Annual of Poetry and Aesthetics, ed. Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich & Jeet Thayil (Special Issue 4–5: “Poetry and Truth and Indian Poetry in English,” 2005): 232–37. Yaeger, Patricia. “Editor’s Column: The End of Postcolonial Theory? A Roundtable with Sunil Agnani, Fernando Coronil, Gaurav Desai, Mamadou Diouf, Simon Gikandi, Susie Tharu, and Jennifer Wenzel,” PMLA 122.3 (May 2007): 633–51. Wilson, Janet, Cristina Sandru & Sarah Lawson Welsh. “General Introduction” to Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium, ed. Wilson, Sandru & Welsh (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2010): 1–12. Zecchini, Laetitia. Arun Kolatkar and Literary Modernism in India: Moving Lines (London: Bloomsbury, 2014). ↂ |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/8766 |
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