Introduction: Gateways and walls or the powers and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors

Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M. (2016) Introduction: Gateways and walls or the powers and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors. In: Tunca, D. and Wilson, J. M. (eds.) Postolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction. Leiden: Brill/Rodopi. ix-xviii.

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Item Type:	Book Section
Abstract:	This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the ‘gateway’ and the ‘wall’ to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies. Some chapters foreground the modes of articulation between literal borders and emotional (dis)connections, while others examine how artefacts ranging from personal letters to clothes may be conceptualized as metaphorical ‘gateways’ and ‘walls’ that lead or, conversely, regulate access, to specific forms of cultural expression and knowledge. Following this line of metaphorical thought, the very discipline of postcolonial studies may be regarded as a field whose borders must be constantly redrawn, and whose paradigms need to be continually reshaped and rebuilt to remain relevant in the contemporary world – in other words, the discipline itself is one that is permanently ‘under construction’.
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR9080 Postcolonial literature
Creators:	Tunca, Daria and Wilson, Janet M
Editors:	Tunca, Daria and Wilson, Janet M
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:	21 November 2016
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	ix-xviii
Title of Book:	Postolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction
Series Name:	Cross/Cultures
Volume:	195
Place of Publication:	Leiden
Number of Pages:	347
Language:	English
ISBN:	9789004337671
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	Publisher
References:	Bhabha, Homi K. The Location of Culture (London & New York: Routledge, 1994). Bugeja, Norbert. Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing (Abingdon & New York: Routledge, 2012). Lakoff, George, & Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980). Vladislavić, Ivan, Portrait with Keys: The City of Johannesburg Unlocked (London: Portobello, 2006). Wilson, Janet, & Daria Tunca, ed. Journal of Postcolonial Writing 51.1 (2015), issue on “Postcolonial Thresholds: Gateways and Walls.”
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/9480

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