Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen; Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liège.

• Acknowledgements Permissions and Illustrations Hena MAES–JELINEK: Postcolonial Criticism at the Crossroads: Subjective Questionings of an Old-TimerBernard COHEN: From Foreign LogicsTHE FUTURE OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIESGraham HUGGAN: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Riseof (Trans)cultural StudiesSandra PONZANESI: Beyond Postcolonial Theory? Paradoxes and Potentialities of a Necessary ParadigmFrank SCHULZE–ENGLER: From Postcolonial to Preglobal: Transnational Cultureand the Resurgent Project of ModernitySujay SOOD: An Introduction to Dharmic EthicsDominique BEDIAKO: African Literary Studies and the Internet:No Territory for AfricansBabila J. MUTIA: Meaning in Character: Armah’s Teacher in The Beautyful Ones RevisitedVirginia RICHTER: A New Desire for the grands récits? Rereading Senghor and FanonAnna J. SMITH: Nationalist Without a Nation: Kapka KassabovaJanet WILSON: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the Transcultural Future, or: Will the Centre Hold?NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN POETRYDenys TRUSSELL: Poetry as Translation of History and Nature: The Poem Archipelago and the Ecopoetic Paradigm in the PacificJAN KEMP: Queen of the Castle; Blue IrisesVincent O’SULLIVAN: Lucky table; Reading the Russians; Poetry, oh yes!Andrew SANT: Islandhood; A Firework Maker on the Domestic Front; The Fireworks LessonTRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURALISMKrishna BARUA: The Dancing Prankster or the Enlightened Seer? Raja Rao’s The Cat and Shakespeare and Patrick White’s The Solid MandalaBernth LINDFORS: “Beware the Ides of March”: Amending Julius Nyerere’s Julius CaesarIlka SAAL: Taking on The Tempest: Problems of Postcolonial Re/presentationBarbara SCHMIDT–HABERKAMP: Cross-Cultural Experience and Existence in Yasmine Gooneratne’s Novel A Change of SkiesRussell WEST: Translator In Transit: Postcolonial Identities in Transformation on the Pacific Rim; Annamarie Jagose’s In TranslationGundula WILKE : Storytelling as a Process of Transcultural Mediation: The Examples of Robert Kroetsch and Thomas KingANGLOPHONE/FRANCOPHONE RELATIONSAdele KING: Connections: Simon Njami/Chester Himes; Abourahman Waberi/Nuruddin Farah Maîtres chez nous – Masters in Our Own House:Ralph PORDZIK: The Treatment of Quebec Separatism in Canadian Projective FictionSYNCRETISM IN THE THEATREHaike FRANK: The Revival of Storytelling in Post-Apartheid South African Theatre: Identity-Construction in Lueen Conning’s A Coloured Place and and Athol Fugard and The Cast’s My LifeSujay SOOD: The Man of ManList of Contributors The Cover

Geoffrey V. Davis and Peter H. Marsden teach at the Rhenish-Westphalian Technical University, Aachen; Bénédicte Ledent and Marc Delrez teach at the University of Liège.

• Acknowledgements Permissions and Illustrations Hena MAES–JELINEK: Postcolonial Criticism at the Crossroads: Subjective Questionings of an Old-TimerBernard COHEN: From Foreign LogicsTHE FUTURE OF POSTCOLONIAL STUDIESGraham HUGGAN: Postcolonialism, Globalization, and the Riseof (Trans)cultural StudiesSandra PONZANESI: Beyond Postcolonial Theory? Paradoxes and Potentialities of a Necessary ParadigmFrank SCHULZE–ENGLER: From Postcolonial to Preglobal: Transnational Cultureand the Resurgent Project of ModernitySujay SOOD: An Introduction to Dharmic EthicsDominique BEDIAKO: African Literary Studies and the Internet:No Territory for AfricansBabila J. MUTIA: Meaning in Character: Armah’s Teacher in The Beautyful Ones RevisitedVirginia RICHTER: A New Desire for the grands récits? Rereading Senghor and FanonAnna J. SMITH: Nationalist Without a Nation: Kapka KassabovaJanet WILSON: New Zealand Literary Nationalism and the Transcultural Future, or: Will the Centre Hold?NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIAN POETRYDenys TRUSSELL: Poetry as Translation of History and Nature: The Poem Archipelago and the Ecopoetic Paradigm in the PacificJAN KEMP: Queen of the Castle; Blue IrisesVincent O’SULLIVAN: Lucky table; Reading the Russians; Poetry, oh yes!Andrew SANT: Islandhood; A Firework Maker on the Domestic Front; The Fireworks LessonTRANSLATION AND INTERCULTURALISMKrishna BARUA: The Dancing Prankster or the Enlightened Seer? Raja Rao’s The Cat and Shakespeare and Patrick White’s The Solid MandalaBernth LINDFORS: “Beware the Ides of March”: Amending Julius Nyerere’s Julius CaesarIlka SAAL: Taking on The Tempest: Problems of Postcolonial Re/presentationBarbara SCHMIDT–HABERKAMP: Cross-Cultural Experience and Existence in Yasmine Gooneratne’s Novel A Change of SkiesRussell WEST: Translator In Transit: Postcolonial Identities in Transformation on the Pacific Rim; Annamarie Jagose’s In TranslationGundula WILKE : Storytelling as a Process of Transcultural Mediation: The Examples of Robert Kroetsch and Thomas KingANGLOPHONE/FRANCOPHONE RELATIONSAdele KING: Connections: Simon Njami/Chester Himes; Abourahman Waberi/Nuruddin Farah Maîtres chez nous – Masters in Our Own House:Ralph PORDZIK: The Treatment of Quebec Separatism in Canadian Projective FictionSYNCRETISM IN THE THEATREHaike FRANK: The Revival of Storytelling in Post-Apartheid South African Theatre: Identity-Construction in Lueen Conning’s A Coloured Place and and Athol Fugard and The Cast’s My LifeSujay SOOD: The Man of ManList of Contributors The Cover