Browsing Volume 2, Issue 1, November 2009 by Title
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Bernal Díaz del Castillo and the Reimagining of Colonial Mythologies
(2009-11-05)This article explores the role of stories of encounter as sites for post-colonial redefinitions of the meaning of the colonial past. Such stories become the centrepieces of subsequent debate about the relationships between ... -
Contributors to Volume 2, No. 1, November 2009
(2009-11-09)List of contributors to Transnational Literature, Volume 2, no. 1, November 2009. -
Diasporic Dispersals and Convergences: The Creative Trajectory of a PhD Project
(2009-11-06)My critical-creative PhD project on diasporic creative practice began as a textual analysis dissertation with a video-recorded reception studies component, but it has become more than a hybrid research discourse. Its ... -
Editor's note and contents page for Volume 2, no. 1, November 2009
(2009-11)Editor's note and contents page for Volume 2, no. 1, November 2009 of Transnational Literature -
Gillian Dooley interviews Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East'.
(2009-10-31)Interview with Joris Luyendijk, author of 'Fit to Print: Misrepresenting the Middle East', a book about the problems of foreign journalism in the Middle East. -
hybrid talk in mongrel town – questions of identity in the cross-cultural space of the new Macao poetry
(2009-11-06)Macao is a place of plural identities; or it will be more nuanced to say that identity in Macao is dynamic, layered, often paradoxical – for instance, at once cosmopolitan and parochial. Identity, for the poet, is gleaned ... -
Imaginary Pasts: Colonisation, Migration and Loss in J.G. Farrell’s 'The Singapore Grip' and in Amitav Ghosh’s 'The Glass Palace'
(2009-11-05)A quotation from each of the two novels that form the background for this paper will immediately establish why these narratives are pertinent to the central theme of the ‘Moving Cultures, Shifting Identities Conference’ ... -
Last Days of Empire: DeLillo’s America and Murakami’s Japan
(2009-11-06)Don DeLillo’s Underworld and Haruki Murakami’s The Windup Bird Chronicle anticipated in a literary way the public debate over the existence of contemporary empire in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on ... -
Of Bishops and Pasties
(2009-10-30)Extract from Etiennette Fennell's memoir about migrating to Adelaide as a small child, titled 'So Far Away' (Table One, 2009). -
Review of 'A Fork in the Road' by Andre Brink.
(2009-10-31)Review of Andre Brink's memoir 'A Fork in the Road'. -
Review of 'Ancestral Narratives: Irish Australian Identities in History and Fiction' by Chad Habel.
(2009-10-30)Review of Chad Habel's book 'Ancestral Narratives: Irish Australian Identities in History and Fiction' -
Review of 'Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939' by Susannah Fullerton.
(2009-10-31)Review of 'Brief Encounters: Literary Travellers in Australia 1836-1939' by Susannah Fullerton. -
Review of 'Britishness Abroad' ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre..
(2009-10-31)Review of 'Britishness Abroad: Transnational Movements and Imperial Culture' ed. Kate Darian-Smith, Patricia Grimshaw and Stuart Macintyre. -
Review of 'Brother, I'm Dying' by Edwidge Danticat.
(2009-11-02)Review of Edwidge Danticat's memoir 'Brother, I'm Dying'. -
Review of 'Cutting Rhythms' by Karen Pearlman.
(2009-10-31)Review of 'Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit' by Karen Pearlman. -
Review of 'Embracing the Other' ed. Dunja M. Mohr.
(2009-10-31)Review of 'Embracing the Other: Addressing Xenophobia in the New Literatures in English', ASNEL Papers no. 11, ed. Dunja M. Mohr. -
Review of 'Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities' by Paul Allatson & Jo McCormack.
(2009-10-31)Review of 'Exile Cultures, Misplaced Identities' by Paul Allatson and Jo McCormack.