Engaging with Literature of Commitment. Volume 2. The Worldly Scholar - Couverture rigide

Collier, Gordon Mar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9042035099 ISBN 13 : 9789042035096

Editeur : Rodopi, 2012

Synopsis

This collection ranges far and wide, as befits the personality and accomplishments of the dedicatee, Geoffrey V. Davis, German studies and exile literature scholar, postcolonialist (if there are specialties, then Australia, Canada, India, South Africa, Black Britain), journal and book series editor.... The volume opens with essays on cultural theory and practice, proceeds to close analyses of settler colony texts from Canada, India, Australia, and New Zealand (drama, fiction, and poetry) as well as Pacific drama and Canadian indigeneity, thence homeward to the UK (black drama, Scottish fiction, the music of Morrissey) and to German themes (exile literature; fictions about Hitler). Because Geoffs commitment to literature has always been hands-on, the book closes with a selection of poems and experimental prose. Writers discussed include Carmen Aguirre, Hany Abu-Assad, Beryl Bainbridge, Albert Belz, Peter Bland, Peter Carey, Lynda ChanwaiEarle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric EmmanuelSchmitt, Toa Fraser, Stephen Fry, Dianna Fuemana, Mavis Gallant, Alasdair Gray, Xavier Her¬bert, Janette Turner Hospital, Elizabeth Jolley, Wendy Lill, Varanasi Nagalakshmi, Arundhati Roy, Daniel Sloate, Drew Hayden Taylor, Jane Urquhart, Roy Williams, and Arnold Zweig.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gordon Collier has published books on translation and on Patrick White, and is the editor or co-editor of numerous critical anthologies. He is co-general editor of the book-series Cross/Cultures and of the journal Matatu.
Marc Delrez teaches anglophone and comparative literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of a book on Janet Frame and co-editor (with Bénédicte Ledent) of The Contact and the Culmination (1997), a collection of essays on postcolonial literature.
Anne Fuchs taught comparative literature and theatre studies at the University of Nice. She is the co-editor (with Geoff Davis) of two collections of essays on South African and Black British theatre.
Bénédicte Ledent teaches English language and Caribbean literature at the University of Liège. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of books on Caryl Phillips and on Caribbean literature.

Contributors: Béatrice Bijon, Anne Brewster, David Callahan, Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Ganesh Devy, Terry Goldie, Geoff Goodfellow, Kristjana Gunnars, Dennis Haskell, Dolores Herrero, Gavin Hopps, Devindra Kohli, Martin Kuester, Jaroslav Kušnír, Bénédicte Ledent, Russell McDougall, Peter H. Marsden, Marc Maufort, David Midgley, Norbert H. Platz, Helga Ramsey–Kurz, Erhard Reckwitz, Carla Sassi, Michael Sharkey, Kirpal Singh, Gerhard Stilz, Sven Strasen, Peter O. Stummer, Andrew Taylor, Pia Thielmann, Deborah Vietor–Engländer, Ian Wallace, and Peter Wenzel

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rodopi
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042035099
• ISBN 13: 9789042035096
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 445
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Buchpark GmbH; https://www.buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne