This second collection, complementing ASNEL Papers 9.1, covers a similar range of writers, topics, themes and issues, all focusing on present-day transcultural issues and their historical antecedents. Topics treated: Preparing for post-apartheid in South African fiction; Maori culture and the New Historicism; Danish-New Zealand acculturation; linguistic approaches to ‘void’; women’s overcoming in Southern African writing; new post-apartheid approaches to literary studies; Afrikanerdom; postmodern psychoanalytic interpretations of Indian religion and identity; transcultural identity in the encounter with London: Malaysian, Nigerian, Pakistani; hypertextual postmodernism; fictionalized multiculturalism and female madness in Australian fiction; myopia and double vision in colonial Australia; Native-American fiction and poetry; Chinese-Canadian and Japanese-Canadian multiculturalism; the postcolonial city; African-American identity and postcolonial Africa; Johannesburg as locus of literary and dramatic creativity; theatre before and after apartheid; the black experience in England.

Writers discussed: Lalithambika Antherjanam; Ayi Kwei Armah; J.M. Coetzee; Tsitsi Dangarembga; Helen Darville; Lauris Edmond; Buchi Emecheta; Yvonne du Fresne; Hiromi Goto; Patricia Grace; Rodney Hall; Joy Harjo; Bessie Head; Gordon Henry Jr.; Christopher Hope; Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; Hanif Kureishi; Keri Hulme, Lee Kok Liang; Bill Manhire; Zakes Mda; Mike Nicol; Michael Ondaatje; Alan Paton; Ravinder Randhawa; Wendy Rose; Salman Rushdie; Sipho Sepamla; Atima Srivastava; Meera Syal; Marlene van Niekerk; Yvonne Vera; Fred Wah .

Contributions by Ken Arvidson; Thomas Brückner; David Callahan; Eleonora Chiavetta; Marc Colavincenzo; Gordon Collier; John Douthwaite; Dorothy Driver; Claudia Duppé; Robert Fraser; Anne Fuchs; John Gamgee; D.C.R.A. Goonetilleke; Konrad Gross; Bernd Herzogenrath; Susanne Hilf; Clara A.B. Joseph; Jaroslav Kušnír; Chantal Kwast–Greff; M.Z. Malaba; Sigrun Meinig; Michael Meyer; Mike Nicol; Obododimma Oha; Vincent O’Sullivan; Judith Dell Panny; Mike Petry; Jochen Petzold; Norbert H. Platz; Malcolm Purkey; Stéphanie Ravillon; Anne Holden Rønning; Richard Samin; Cecile Sandten; Nicole Schröder; Joseph Swann; André Viola; Christine Vogt–William; Bernard Wilson; Janet Wilson; Brian Worsfold. 

Creative writing by Katherine Gallagher; Peter Goldsworthy; Syd Harrex; Mike Nicol.

Table of contents

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Norbert PLATZ et al.
In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924–2000): A Tribute

LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES

Thomas BRÜCKNER
An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol

Mike NICOL
Trom The Ibis Tapestry

John DOUTHWAITE
Coetzee’s Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter

Dorothy DRIVER
Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing

John GAMGEE
The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee

Richard SAMIN
Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies

Brian WORSFOLD
Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamla’s Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

André VIOLA
Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s

Clara JOSEPH
The S(p)ecular ‘Convert’: A Response to Gauri Viswanathan’s Outside the Fold

Bernard WILSON
Sub merging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang’s London Does Not Belong To Me

Anne H. RØNNING
Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne

Bernd HERZOGENRATH
The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield

Jaroslav KUŠNÍR
Multiculturalism in Helen Darville’s The Hand That Signed The Paper?

Chantal KWAST–GREFF
Mad ‘Mad’ Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction

Sigrun MEINIG
Myopic Visions: Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom

Katherine GALLAGHER
Jet Lag. My Mother’s Garden. Reckoning

Peter GOLDSWORTHY
Evil Eye. Bed

Syd HARREX
What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? A Lover’s Anguish in King William St. No Title. Aroma Therapy. Screen Images

ABORIGINAL LITERATURE

David CALLAHAN
Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr’s The Light People

Nicole SCHRÖDER
Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo

Judith DELL PANNY
Inside the Spiral: Māori Writing in English

MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY

Marc COLAVINCENZO
“Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables”: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms

Robert FRASER
Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje’s Toronto and Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo

Susanne HILF
“Hybridize or Disappear”: Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill

D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE
Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust

Obododimma OHA
Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa

M.Z. MALABA
Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Paton’s Fiction

Jochen PETZOLD
Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope’s Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley

Anne FUCHS
The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg

Malcolm PURKEY
Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa

THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN

Eleonora CHIAVETTA
In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emecheta’s Been-To Novels

Michael MEYER
The Other Women’s Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta

Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY
“Searching for a Sense of Self”: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie

Stéphanie RAVILLON
An Introduction to Salman Rushdie’s Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses

Cecile SANDTEN
East is West: Hanif Kureishi’s Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastava’s Metropolitan Yuppies

Christine VOGT–WILLIAM
Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me

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