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 Geoff’s 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 Chanwai–Earle, Kamala Das, Robert Drewe, Éric Emmanuel–Schmitt, 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.

Table of contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Memory Trip
Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical

CONSPECTUS AND COMPARISON

Gerhard RECKWITZ
Literature as a Rule-Breaking Activity

Sven STRASEN and Peter WENZEL
Construction of Identities, Polar Opposites, and Cultural Models: The Binary Approach to Cultural Interaction

Gerhard STILZ
What Happens in the 'Contact Zone'?

Ganesh DEVY
Endangered Languages and Dispossessed Communities

Norbert H. PLATZ
Ecocriticism, Environmental Ethics, and a New Ecological Culture

UNSETTLED SETTLERS AND OTHERS

Kristjana GUNNARS
Extreme Liminality: The Linked Stories of Edouard, Juliette, and Lena in Mavis Gallant's Overhead in a Balloon

Peter O. STUMMER
Move the Earth with One's Dramatic Shovel? Some Observations on Recent Plays in Canada and Beyond

Terry GOLDIE
Fanciful lndigeneity

Martin KUESTER
Between European Past and Canadian Present: Lesbian Mennonite Writing and Collective Memory

David CALLAHAN
Entropy and the Totally Buried Home in Jane Urquhart's A Map of Glass

Devindra KOHLI
"Under a pillar of rain / thinking goodbye": Remembering Kamala Das

Beatrice BIJON
'Bubbles into the Bottle' of Postcolonialism: Ritornellos and Screen-Memories in Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things

Russell McDOUGALL
The Materialization and Transfonnation of Xavier Herbert: A Body of Work Committed to Australia

Dolores HERRERO
The Phantom and Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Jolley's The Well

Helga RAMSEY-KURZ
Due Preparations for Paradise: or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital

Marc DELREZ
"Grace of the Crocodiles": Towards Deterritorialization of Culture in Robert Drewe's Grace

Jaroslav KUSNIR
Lives of Artists, Identities of Countries: Dependence, Displacement, Identity, and Australia in Peter Carey's Theft

Marc MAUFORT
Positioning Alterity: Multi-Ethnic Identities in Contemporary New Zealand Drama

Peter H. MARSDEN
Ut pictura poiesis: Paintings and Painters in the Poetry of Peter Bland

HOME TERRITORY

Bénédicte LEDENT
A Play of Significance: Roy Williams's Days of Significance and the Question of Labels

Carla SASSI
Postcolonializing Glasgow's Amnesia: Alasdair Gray's Lanark as a Palimpsest of Scottish Imperial History

Gavin HOPPS
A Foreigner at Home: Morrissey and the Art of Embarrassment

FIRST LOVE

David MIDGLEY
Zweig's Englishmen

Deborad VIETOR-ENGLÄNDER
"Mr Davis's Monument, or Dear Mr Davis, what shall I do?"

Ian WALLACE
The Enigma of Hitler: Counterfactual Perspectives

WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

Dennis HASKELL
A Tale of Two Cities

Geoff GOODFELLOW
Onto the Spin Cycle

Michael SHARKEY
The Day Collector: An Ode
My Classic Bent: Scene From a Life

Gordon COLLIER
Canada Quartet (for Geoff)
Historia canis
In motionless air

Anne BREWSTER
Travelogue

Andrew TAYLOR
Karri forest
Maxi, goodbye

Pia THIELMANN
The Way to Agra; or Nature's Pain Everywhere

Kirpal SINGH
from this side of memory

Notes on Contributors