Imagined Commonwealth

KARIN BARBER Senior Lecturer , Centre for West African Studies, University of BirminghamHOWARD ERSKINE-HILL Professor of Literary History, CambridgeSUSAN FITZMAURICE Associate Professor, Northern Arizona UniversityANDREW GURR Professor of English, University of ReadingWILSON HARRIS has published a distinguished series of novels, often set in Guyana, since 1960JOHN KINSELLA the leading Australian poet of his generation and has won numerous awards and prizesJAVED MAJEED Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, LondonKIRSTEN MALMKJAER Research Lecturer, Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, University of CambridgeC. D. NARASIMHAIAH was Professor of English, Mysore and is director of the Dhvanyaloka Study Centre, MysoreBEN OKRI won the Booker Prize with The Famished Road in 1991DAVID RICHARDS Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of LeedsWOLE SOYINKA won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986

'The attempt of the book, is to argue a future into being where the reality of cultural difference is a resource rather than a barrier...it is an enterprise worth the celebrating.' - Peter Arnott, The Herald (Glasgow)

• Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Cambridge English and Commonwealth Literature; T.J.Cribb PART I: GATEWAYS AND FRONTIERS Redreaming the World; B.Okri Child at the Frontier; W.Soyinka Judgement and Dream; W.Harris Fens, Droughts and Deserts; J.Kinsella PART II: LIMITS AND LANGUAGES Language and Literature: Englishes and Translation; K.Malmkjaer In the Shadow of Language: From Joyce to Okri; T.J.Cribb African-Language Literature and Post-Colonial Criticism; K.Barber Aspects of Afrikaans in South African Literature in English; S.Fitzmaurice PART III: TRADITIONS AND PLACES Towards an Understanding of the Indian Poetic Tradition and Its Critical Framework, with Reference to Literature in English; C.D.Narasimhaiah Putting God in His Place: Metaphysics and Politics in British India with Reference to the Works of Iqbal in English and Persian; J.Majeed The Nuisance Grounds: the Theme of Relegation in Two Canadian Novels; H.Erskine-Hill 'The Culture of Displacement and Its Effects': Frazer, Freud and Others; D.Richards Conclusion Wordmaps for Chaos: the New Geographism; A.Gurr Index