Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures

Michael Meyer teaches in the Department of English at the University of Koblenz–Landau (Germany). He has published on colonial and postcolonial literature, Gothic fiction and film, British art, autobiography, poetry, short fiction, and teaching literature.

”Word & Image in Colonial and Postcolonial Literature and Cultures is an impressive and attractive collection. It should be borne in mind that what is not at stake in Word & Image is a through-going investigation into the realpolitik of colonialism, but rather an examination of aesthetic representation in a cross-cultural context. In this sense, the collection overall avoids the difficult politics of colonial legacies, with most essays preferring instead to concentrate on the limits of word/image representation. In this regard it is a welcome addition to the store of recent postcolonial scholarship on the ideological impulses behind words and images.” - Eoghan Smith, Carlow College, Ireland, in: The English Messenger 23.1 (Summer 2014), pp. 82-84

• AcknowledgementsIllustrations and PermissionsIntroductionMichael Meyer: Word & Image – Gaze & SpectacleColonial RepresentationsDaniel Jaczminski: Liberating the Strange Fish. Visual Representations of Caliban and Their Successive Emancipation from Shakespeare’s Original TextPeter Wagner: Hogarth and the OtherPatricia Plummer: “The free treatment of topics usually taboo’d”. Glimpses of the Harem in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Fine ArtsCordula Lemke: Tourist Places, Other Gazes. Robert Louis Stevenson’s EdinburghPostcolonial RepresentationsGisela Feurle: “Picture is a Silent Talker” (Apagya). African Studio Photography in the English ClassroomSonja Altnöder: A Black and White Nation? The ‘New’ South Africa in Zapiro’s CartoonsMarita Wenzel: Zakes Mda’s Representation of South African Reality in Ways of Dying, The Madonna of Excelsior and The Whale CallerHeilna du Plooy: Looking Out and Looking In. The Dynamic Use of Words and Images in the Oeuvre of Breyten BreytenbachSusan Arndt: Whiteness as a Category of Literary Analysis. Racializing Markers and Race-Evasiveness in J.M. Coetzee’s DisgraceAnn Spangenberg: “Just for show”. Visuality in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey KingLaurence Petit: On Pickles, Pictures, and Words: Pick-torial Preservation and Verbal Self-Regeneration in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s ChildrenLucia Krämer: “Neither united nor separated”. Negotiating Difference in Ashutosh Gowariker’s Lagaan and Ketan Mehta’s Mangal PandeyChristine Vogt–William: Transcultural Gender Interrogations in Bride and Prejudice. Intertextual Encounters of the South Asian Diasporic KindRainer Emig: Missing in Act(i)on. Asian-British Pop Music Between Resistance and CommercializationRenate Brosch: Vernacular Landscape. Narrative Space in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly GangMichaela Moura–Koçoğlu: Regaining the Past and Shaping the Present. Indigenous Children’s Fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the USANicole Schröder: Between Words and Images. Negotiating the Meaning of Home in Ken Lum’s There Is No Place Like HomeJens Martin Gurr: The Mass-Slaughter of Native Americans in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man. A Complex Interplay of Word and ImageNotes on Contributors