Hena Maes-Jelinek has been one of the sharpest critical minds at work on the old continent in the field of the New Literatures in English. She has played a pioneering role in spreading interest in post-colonial literatures and studies in Europe and beyond; and her name remains notably associated with the work of Wilson Harris, which nobody seems to have better understood and explained. This volume ranges widely over areas that Hena has discovered and explored throughout her career as teacher, editor, and critic.

Table of contents

Marc DELREZ & Bénédicte LEDENT
Introduction

Margaret Rose HARRIS
Words

Margaret Rose HARRIS
Hena

Wilson HARRIS
Extract from Jonestown

Derry JEFFARES
Four Poems for Hena

Brian MATTHEWS
"First Love"

Fay ZWICKY
"Der Rufer" (The Caller)

Fay ZWICKY
"Losing Track" For H. M.-J.

Fay ZWICKY
"The Gatekeeper's Wife"

Shirley CHEW
A Question of Form: Phyllis Webb's Water and Light: Ghazals and Anti Ghazals

Jeanne DELBAERE
"Only Re-Connect": Temporary Pacts in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

Michel DELVILLE
Murdering the Text: Genre and Gender Issues in Margaret Atwood's Short Short Fiction

Coral Ann HOWELLS
Morning in the Burned House: At Home in the Wilderness

Christine PAGNOULLE
Conventions of the Marvellous in Hodgins's (Re)Inventions of Love

Geoffrey V. DAVIS
"The People Are Claiming Their History": Reconstructions of History in Recent Black South African Writing

Albert S. GÉRARD
Creolization: A Key to the Future of African Writing

James GIBBS
"Eshu Confuser of Men!": Questions prompted by Wole Soyinka's Ibadan: The Penkelemes Years, a Memoir 1946–1965

Russell MCDOUGALL
Spatial Dynamics of Mask and Face in Soyinka's The Road

Alastair NIVEN
The Profundity of Solitude: Mbella Sonne Dipoko's A Few Nights and Days

Marc DELREZ and Paulette MICHEL-MICHOT
The Politics of Metamorphosis: Cultural Transformation in David Malouf's Remembering Babylon

Dominique HECQ
Tirra Lirra! Tales of Purloined Letters and Edited Destinies

Anna RUTHERFORD
Truth has a Life of its Own: Shirley Hazzard's The Transit of Venus

Robert SELLICK
The Twyborn Affair and the Problem of Choice

Helen TIFFIN
The Body in the Library: Identity, Opposition and the Settler-Invader Woman

Gordon COLLIER
His True Alien Spiritual Love: Walcott Wrestles with Harris (A Maes-querade)

Pierre FRANÇOIS
Synchronicity and the Unitarian Geopsyche in Wilson Harris's Companions of the Day and Night

Louis JAMES
A Tale of Two Rivers: From Sir Walter Raleigh to Wilson Harris

Bruce KING
West Indian Performing Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation 1957–1963: The West Indian Arts Festival, The Little Carib and Errol Hill

Bénédicte LEDENT
Remembering Slavery: History as Roots in the Fiction of Caryl Phillips and Fred D'Aguiar

Jean-Pierre DURIX
The Breath of Life/Stories: Patricia Grace's Potiki

Carole FROUDE-DURIX
Man and His/story in the Poetry of Albert Wendt

Christine LEVECQ
The Discourse on Slavery in the Dutch East Indies up to 1800: A Double Ideology

Gareth GRIFFITHS
Islands of Community: Autobiographical Accounts of Indian Displaced Communities—Subject, Community and Nation

Doireann MacDERMOTT
Rejecting Rejection

Paul SHARRAD
Unsettling Promise: The Revenant in Post-Colonial Writing

John THIEME
After Greenwich: Crossing Meridians in Post-Colonial Literatures

Chantal ZABUS and Kevin A. DWYER
"I'll be wise hereafter": Caliban in Postmodern British Cinema

Juliette DOR
Hena Maes-Jelinek: A Bibliography