Anna Rutherford has been the most dynamic ambassador of Australian culture in Europe. More than any other single person, she has been instrumental in spreading interest in Commonwealth and post-colonial studies. Wherever she has been in the world, she has brought people together in friendship and intellectual endeavour. This volume ranges widely over the areas Anna has promoted as teacher, editor and publisher.

Table of contents

Hena MAES-JELINEK
Prologue and Acknowledgements

Derry JEFFARES
To Anna

Aritha van HERK
Anna Rutherford Excursions

Lars JENSEN
The Far Outdoors

Maggie BUTCHER
An Open Letter to Anna

Klaus STUCKERT
Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise: Sally Morgan and Michelle Cliff

Michel FABRE
Dear Anna

Doug. KILLAM
Unchallenged Excellence

Mette JØRGENSEN
Friendship in a Second Language

Wilson HARRIS
A Brief Memoir

Beverleyy FARMER
Annas Hus

Jeanne DELBAERE
Annaarhus

Jan KEMP
In Menton after EACLALS at Nice

Cherry CLAYTON
The Secret Spring

Alamgir HASHMI
Anna and Kirsten: A Photograph

Kirpal SINGH
Looking Back

Alex MILLER
The Wine Merchant of Aarhus

Davis DABYDEEN
From The Counting House

Ian STEPHEN
Cyanus

Marion HALLIGAN
Shagreen

Jean ARASANAYAGAM
From Dragons in the Wilderness: The Father (Early 1900s)

John THIEME
The Word

Pater O. STUMMER
The Unbiassed Search

D. JEFFARES
A Dreaming Sequence

Les A. MURRAY
Cotton Flannelette

Diane FAHEY
Macaws

Lauris EDMOND
Tree Surgeon; Bronze in a Town square, City of Derry, Northern Ireland; Trapeze; Undeserved

Ian ADAM
From GLASS/gloss: Hopscotch; This Is My Spring Poem

Bruce BENNETT
Homecomings: A Personal Reflection

Brian MATTHEWS
Tears

Doireann MacDERMOTT
Of Maps, Shipwrecks, and Islands

Nelson WATTIE
Singing for Witi and Ross

Andrew TAYLOR
Spring

Stephen GRAY
Ovid in His Exile

Yasmine GOONERATNE
Do Not Show Me the Graves

Jean ARASANAYAGAM
Decolonizing the Self: Viewing the Queen (1950s-1980s)

Helen TIFFIN
African Violets

Ian STEPHEN
Poems and Photo-Poems

M. SHARKEY
Rite of Passage; The New Boy; Recollecting the Köln Master's Faces

Alamgir HASHMI
Salaam to T-Sai Lun; Tropics

Susheila NASTA
Wasafiri: History, Politics and Post-Colonial Literature

Paul SHARRAD
The Post-Colonial Gesture

Gerry TURCOTTE
Prolegomena to Un/Covering Alter/Native Scripts

Livio DOBREZ
Not European-Made: Civilisation and Its Discontents

Alistair NIVEN
Wordsworth's "Daffodils": A Post-Colonial Exhumation

Victor J. RAMRAJ
The Anna Rutherford-Aarhus Conference: Common Wealth Twenty-First Years On

Jennifer STRAUSS
Tierra del Fuego

Elaine LINDSAY
"From the earth is risse a sun": The Later Diaries of Barbara Hanrahan

Bruce CLUNIES ROSS
On Not Meeting Barbara Hanrahan in the Adelaide Suburbs: A Colonial Rhapsody

Diana BRYDON
Trousered Women: Cross-Dressing in Some Contemporary Australian and Canadian Texts

Dorothy JONES
Women, Place, and Myth-Making: A Post-Colonial Perspective

Isabella CARRERA SUÁREZ
Carnal and Spiritual Empires: Catholic-Cultural Iconography in Lucía Guerra's "De brujas y de mártires"

Marina WARNER
Siren, Hyphen, or, The Maid Beguiled: R.L. Stevenson's "The Beach at Falesá"

Chantal ZABUS
The Power of"the Blue-Eyed Hag": A Note on Gynocracy in Marina Warner's Indigo

Joan KIRKBY
Abject Discourse and the Imperial Gaze in Rosa Cappiello's Oh Lucky Country

Helen TIFFIN
"Persistent Rumours": Epire, Gender and "the Savage" in Conan Doyle's The Sign of Four

Jacqueline BARDOLPH
Celebration of Life, Celebration of Language: Two Short Stories by Ama Ata Aidoo and Patricia Grace

Britta OLINDER
Gender-Power Issues in Indian Terms: Shashi Deshpande's Fiction

Landeg WHITE
Massamba with the Brilliant Flowers (i.m. Luiza Drennon, 1924-91); The Three Graces; Update from a Distant Friend (Zomba to Blantyre, after Jan Kees Van Donge)

Susan BALLYN
The Grass Spider; Nothing Is; Rooms

Anne WALMSLEY
Bridges of Sleep: Continental and Island Inheritance in the Visual Arts of Guyana

Mark WILLIAMS
"Urban Archipelagoes": Wilson Harris and the Post-Colonial Novel

Mark McWATT
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer: Exile and the Trans-Cultural Imagination in Guyanese Novelists

Sue THOMAS
Conflicted Textual Affiliations: Jean Rhys's "The Insect" and "Heat"

Tim CRIBB
From Aran to St Lucia: Literary Modernism and the Folk Play

Bénédicte LEDENT
Is Counter-Discursive Criticism Obsolescent? Intertextuality in Caryl Phillips's Higher Ground

Louis JAMES
Eating the Dead: A Note on Cooking in Caribbean Literature

Edward BAUGH
You Ever Notice How

Velma POLLARD
Name

Arthur DRAYTON
Homage to Miss Vincy

Geert LERNOUT
"What Shall We Do with the Shrunken Tailor?": Salman Rushdie's Intertextuality

Gergard STILZ
Return to the Jungle? Colonial and Post-Colonial Landscapes in Indian-English Literatures

D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE
Quartet: The Other Tagore

Shirley GEOK-LIN LIM
Crossroads and Crossed Words

Kirpal SINGH
Cosmopolitanism in Singaporean Literature in English

Satendra NANDAN
Shooting the Deer, Shimla

Dieter RIEMENSCHNEIDER
taj view; at dhvanyaloka; delhi; dawn; pocomaniacs

Geoff DAVIS
The Intoxicated Octopus and the Garlic-Kissed Prawn: On South African Bibliography

Bernth LINDFORS: Towards an Achebe Iconography

Itala VIVAN
Nuruddin Farah's Beautiful Mat and its Italian Plot

Coral Ann HOWELLS
Taking Risks: Aline Munro's "The Jack Randa Hotel"

Martin LEER
The Map of the Story: Dranw from Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

Bernard HICKEY
Opting for Newfoundland: Margaret Duley's Cold Pastoral

Konrad GROSS
The Voyageurs: Images of Canada's Archetypal Frontiersmen

Chris TIFFIN
Pacific Writing and the Diminishing Islands

W.H. NEW
A Prologue to Mansfield's Epilogues

Jean-Pierre DURIX
Patricia Grace's Potiki or the Trickster behind the Scenes

Rivert SELLICK
Alex Miller: Games and Puzzles

Russell McDOUGALL
George Darrell's The Sunny South: Cultural Allegory and Racial Ideology

Veronica BRADY
"This World, the Next World, and Australia"

Jennifer STRAUSS
Inscribing the Tree in the Poetry of Judith Wright

Gareth GRIFFITHS
Representing Difference in Sam Watson's The Kadaitcha Sung

Graham HUGGAN
Peter Carey's Fiction and the Incriminated Reader

Pat DOBREZ
The Bundanon Gift: Uses of the Feudal in Contemporary Australia

Gordon COLLIER
Commas, Caps, and Corrections Notes Towards a Standard Edition of Patrick White's The Solid Mandala

List of Contributors