ANDRÉ DODEMAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes in the Foreign Languages department. He has published articles on many Canadian contemporary writers and co-edited two books on postcolonial literature.ÉLODIE RAIMBAULT is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes. She has published on British writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, particularly Rudyard Kipling, focusing on cartographic and geopoetic representations of colonial territories.

• List of FiguresIntroductionPART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDINGWoman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of IllusionsBILJANA ÐOR IĆ–FRANCUSK I ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)JULIE BELUAU Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early PhotographsMARIE–CHRIST INE BLIN How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild WestDÚNLAITH BIRD The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and FictionANNE LE GUELL EC–MINELPART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTSMigrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black AtlanticWINFR IED SIEMERLINGReworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe)ELARA BERTHO Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897)JAINE CHEMMACHERY Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the EquatorFRÉDÉRIC DUMAS Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer MythCHRI ST INE VANDAMMEPART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH“In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of SongDANIEL KARLIN Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideSAB INE LAURET–TAFT Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of PiFRANÇOISE STOREY & JEFF STOREY Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera,and the bone people by Keri HulmeLAURA SINGEOTNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex

ANDRÉ DODEMAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes in the Foreign Languages department. He has published articles on many Canadian contemporary writers and co-edited two books on postcolonial literature.ÉLODIE RAIMBAULT is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes. She has published on British writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, particularly Rudyard Kipling, focusing on cartographic and geopoetic representations of colonial territories.

• List of FiguresIntroductionPART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDINGWoman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of IllusionsBILJANA ÐOR IĆ–FRANCUSK I ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)JULIE BELUAU Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early PhotographsMARIE–CHRIST INE BLIN How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild WestDÚNLAITH BIRD The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and FictionANNE LE GUELL EC–MINELPART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTSMigrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black AtlanticWINFR IED SIEMERLINGReworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe)ELARA BERTHO Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897)JAINE CHEMMACHERY Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the EquatorFRÉDÉRIC DUMAS Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer MythCHRI ST INE VANDAMMEPART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH“In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of SongDANIEL KARLIN Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideSAB INE LAURET–TAFT Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of PiFRANÇOISE STOREY & JEFF STOREY Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera,and the bone people by Keri HulmeLAURA SINGEOTNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex

ANDRÉ DODEMAN is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes in the Foreign Languages department. He has published articles on many Canadian contemporary writers and co-edited two books on postcolonial literature.ÉLODIE RAIMBAULT is an Associate Professor at the University of Grenoble–Alpes. She has published on British writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, particularly Rudyard Kipling, focusing on cartographic and geopoetic representations of colonial territories.

• List of FiguresIntroductionPART ONE: MYTHS OF NATION-BUILDINGWoman as Goddess or Woman as Victim? The Role of Women in the Mahābhārata and Chitra Divakaruni’s The Palace of IllusionsBILJANA ÐOR IĆ–FRANCUSK I ‘On a road between two cities’: Relocating the Myths of the Indian Nation in Amit Chaudhuri’s A Strange and Sublime Address (1991) and St Cyril Road and Other Poems (2005)JULIE BELUAU Framing the West: Myth and Art in Yosemite and Yellowstone’s Early PhotographsMARIE–CHRIST INE BLIN How to Picket-Fence a Mountain: Myths of Domesticity and Dislocation in Isabella Bird’s Wild WestDÚNLAITH BIRD The Tasmanian Tiger: From Extinction to Identity Myth in White Australian Society and FictionANNE LE GUELL EC–MINELPART TWO: DIS/LOCATIONS: CLASHES AND CONFLICTSMigrant Myth: Freedom, Diaspora, and the Black AtlanticWINFR IED SIEMERLINGReworkings of a Literary Myth and Historical Construction: Nehanda (Zimbabwe)ELARA BERTHO Constructing and Deconstructing Myths of British Colonial Identity and Femininity in Mutiny Fiction: Meadows Taylor’s Seeta (1872) and Flora Annie Steel’s On the Face of the Waters (1897)JAINE CHEMMACHERY Novel Myths for a White Australasia: Dealing with the Native in Mark Twain’s Following the EquatorFRÉDÉRIC DUMAS Transfiguration of Australian Founding Myths in Patrick White’s Fiction: Voss as an Iconoclastic Reinterpretation of the Explorer MythCHRI ST INE VANDAMMEPART THREE: IMAGINARY DISLOCATIONS: FROM MYTHOPOEIA TO THE RELOCATION OF MYTH“In Vishnu-land what avatar?” Robert Browning and the Empire of SongDANIEL KARLIN Imagined Topographies of the Sundarbans in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry TideSAB INE LAURET–TAFT Transcending Postcolonial Identity Through Myth: Yann Martel’s Life of PiFRANÇOISE STOREY & JEFF STOREY Relocating the Mythical Self in Three Māori Novels: Potiki by Patricia Grace, The Whale Rider by Witi Ihimaera,and the bone people by Keri HulmeLAURA SINGEOTNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex