Sea for Encounters

Stella Borg Barthet is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Malta. She is the author of papers and book chapters, mostly on Maltese, Australian, and African fiction. Her current research interests include North African and African-American writing.

• Introduction and AcknowledgementsTowards a Postcolonial CommonwealthDaniel Massa: The Relevance of Commonwealth LiteraturePeter O. Stummer: The Commitment Against ExclusionMonica Bungaro: The Teaching of African Literature in the UK: Theoretical and Pedagogical ImplicationsBorders and CrossingsJogamaya Bayer: Crossing the Borders in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and V.S. Naipaul’s Half a LifeSabrina Brancato: Transcultural Outlooks in The Buddha of Suburbia and Some Kind of BlackGen’ichiro Itakura: Jewishness, Goyishness, and Blackness: Zadie Smith’s The Autograph ManLourdes López–Ropero : The Pleasures of Slave Food: The Politics of Creolization in Austin Clarke’s Pigtails ’n BreadfruitNatasha Distiller: “The Most Motley Crewe in All the World”: Sharing Places in South AfricaBen Lebdai: Nadine Gordimer’s The Pickup: Immigration/Emigration in Today’s WorldPerception, Space, TimeSusanne Reichl: Cognitive Encounters: Priming the Reader for Cultural ContactKatrin Berndt: The Limitations of the Chronotope: Female Longing for Unconstrained Space in Yvonne Vera’s Butterfly BurningEvelyne Hanquart–Turner: Amit Chaudhuri’s Afternoon Raag: Interplay and Translation of the ChronotopesMarie Herbillon: Spatial Linearity and Postcolonial Parody in Murray Bail’s Holden’s PerformanceBrigitte Scheer–Schaezler: In the Museum of Loss: Reflections on André Aciman’s EssaysReligion and the SacredDorothy Lane: Dominion from Sea to Sea: Christianity, Imperialism, and the Trope of ConversionKaren King–Aribisala: Sharing Male and Female Spaces: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall ApartJamie S. Scott: “You’re Not Only Drunk But Mad”: The Ironies of Islam in Tayeb Salih’s Season of Migration to the NorthHistory and NarrativeRobert Cribb: Nature Conservation and Cultural Preservation in Convergence: Orang Pendek and Papuans in Colonial IndonesiaAmin Malak: Colonial Encounters or Clash of Civilizations? The Fiction of Naguib Mahfouz, Tayeb Salih, and Ahdaf SoueifJacqueline Jondot: A British Napoleon Or, Can the Empire Strike Back? Edward Atiyah’s The Eagle Flies from the EastUrsula Kluwick: The Personal and the Public: Michael Ondaatje’s Historiographic Metafiction and the Question of Political EngagementAndrea Strolz: ‘True Stories’ in the Course of Time in Margaret Atwood’s The Blind AssassinCynthia vanden Driesen: Rewriting Europe: Carey’s Jack Maggs and Malouf’s Remembering BabylonConcepción Mengíbar–Rico: The Carnivalesque into Theatre: Carnival and Drama in the Anglophone CaribbeanLanguage and TranslationTuomas Huttunen: Ethics, Language, and the Writing of Amitav GhoshClare Thake Vassallo: Identity and Instruction: Issues of Choice Between the Maltese Language and Its OthersLydia Sciriha: Different Genders, Different Conversation Styles? Patterns of Interaction Between Married Couples in MaltaJudith Lütge Coullie: Translating Narrative in the New South Africa: Transition and Transformation in A Change of TongueNotes on ContributorsIndex