Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures /
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Rodopi,
2009.
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| Series: | Cross/cultures ;
116. ASNEL papers ; 14. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : word & image--gaze & spectacle / Michael Meyer
- Colonial representations. Liberating the strange fish : visual representations of Caliban and their successive emancipation from Shakespeare's original text / Daniel Jaczminski ; Hogarth and the other / Peter Wagner ; "The free treatment of topics usually taboo'd" : glimpses of the harem in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and the fine arts / Patricia Plummer ; Tourist places, other gazes : Robert Louis Stevenson's Edinburgh / Cordula Lemke
- Postcolonial representations. "Picture is a silent talker" (Apagya) : African studio photography in the English classroom / Gisela Feurle ; A black and white nation? : the 'new' South Africa in Zapiro's cartoons / Sonja Altnöder ; Zakes Mda's representation of South African reality in Ways of dying, The Madonna of Excelsior, and The whale caller / Marita Wenzel ; Looking out and looking in : the dynamic use of words and images in the oeuvre of Breyten Breytenbach / Heilna du Plooy ; Whiteness as a category of literary analysis : racializing markers and race-evasiveness in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace / Susan Arndt ; "Just for show" : visuality in Timothy Mo's The monkey king / Ann Spagenberg ; On pickles, pictures, and words : pick-torial preservation and verbal self-regeneration in Salman Rushdie's Midnight's children / Laurence Petit ; "Neither united nor separated" : negotiating difference in Ashutosh Gowariker's Lagaan and Ketan Mehta's Mangal Pandey / Lucia Krämer ; Transcultural gender interrogations in Bride and prejudice : intertextual encounters of the South Asian diasporic kind / Christine Vogt-William ; Missing in act(i)on : Asian-British pop music between resistance and commercialization / Rainer Emig ; Vernacular landscape : narrative space in Peter Carey's True history of the Kelly Gang / Renate Brosch ; Regaining the past and shaping the present : indigenous children's fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand, Canada, and the USA / Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu ; Between words and images : negotiating the meaning of home in Ken Lum's There is no place like home / Nicole Schröder ; The mass-slaughter of native Americans in Jim Jarmusch's Dead man : a complex interplay of word and image / Jens Martin Gurr.