Shared waters
soundings in postcolonial literatures
Gedrukt boek
Collection of twenty-nine essays, presented at the meeting of the European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies, held in Malta, March 2005. This volume contains general essays on unequal African/Western academic exchange; the state and structure of postcolonial studies; representing male violence in Zimbabwe's wars; 'parihaka' in the poetic imagination of Aotearoa New Zealand; Middle Eastern, Nigerian, Moroccan, and diasporic Indian women's writing; community in post-Independence Maltese poetry in English; key novels of the Portuguese colonies; the TV series 'The Kumars at No. 42'; fictional representations of India; the North in western Canadian writing; and a pedagogy of African-Canadian literature. As well as these, there is a selection of poems form Malta by Daniel Massa, Adrian Grima, Norbert Bugeja, Immanuel Mifsud, and Maria Grech Ganado, and essays providing close readings of works by divers authors and filmmakers.