Crabtracks

Progress and Process in Teaching the New Literatures in English. Essays in Honour of Dieter Riemenschneider
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1539-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 59, 409 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 735 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

The essays in this collection celebrate the signal achievement of Dieter Riemenschneider in helping found and consolidate the study of postcolonial anglophone literatures in Germany and Europe. As well as poems, a short story, drawings of the Indian scene (the first, and abiding, focus of this scholar’s work), and ‘letters’ of reminiscence (one quite grave), there are revealing contributions of a literary-historical nature on the establishment of anglophone (especially African) literatures as an academic discipline within Germany, the UK, and Northern Europe generally, as well as a group of searching reflections on such topics of postcolonial import as globalization and the applicability of models to the literature of the indigene in Canada and Australia. The largest section is devoted to individual topics, each treatment implicitly keyed to approaches to the teaching of New Literatures texts. Writers covered include Anita Desai (landscape and memory), Salman Rushdie (painting in The Moor’s Last Sigh), Charlotte Brontë (imperial discourse in Jane Eyre), Derek Walcott (Omeros and cultural cohabitation), and Witi Ihimaera (his rewriting of Katherine Mansfield). Topics dealt with include music and radio in West Africa, the African literary ‘hit parade’, the New Zealand prose poem, Canadian and Australian war fiction, the Middle Passage in the American and Caribbean novel, Paul Theroux’s uneasy relations with V.S. Naipaul, and the colonial discourse of illness and recuperation. The volume closes with Dieter Riemenschneider’s very first and most recent critical essays, the one a classic on Mulk Raj Anand, the other a challenging and doubtless controversial thesis on postcolonial minority writing. A select bibliography of Riemenschneider’s work (books, edited publications, journal articles and book contributions, reviews and broadcasts) rounds off this substantial collection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Collier, Gordon

Schulze-Engler, Frank

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
GORDON COLLIER AND FRANK SCHULZE-ENGLER: The Crab of Progress: Exceptionalism and Normalization in an Academic Discipline

Teaching Sideways
Establishing the Study of the New Literatures in English
PETER O. STUMMER: From Common Stealth to Most Colonial: Some Crypto-Critical Ruminating Reminiscences
ECKHARD BREITINGER: Rites of Passage: From Anglicist Traditionalism to New English Literature Horizons
FLORA VEIT-WILD: The Arduous Success Story of a ‘Non-Discipline’: Teaching African Literature at German Universities
BERNTH LINDFORS: Counting and Accounting for Differences: Scoring African Literatures
LOUIS JAMES: Dancing to my Father: Alterity and Identity in Cross-Cultural Experience
KIRSTEN HOLST PETERSEN: African Literature: A European Pursuit. What’s in a Field?
Theoretical Vistas on the New Literatures
KATJA SARKOWSKY: Beyond Margins and Centres: First Nations Literature and the Challenge to Postcolonial Theory
CAROLE FERRIER: “A whole other story vibrating within it”: Some Approaches to the ‘New Literatures’
SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM: New Literatures in English and Postcolonial Writers in the Age of Globalization

Speculations and Applications
DEVINDRA KOHLI: The Embrace of Recognition: Landscape, Memory and Identity in Anita Desai
HENA MAES-JELINEK: A Note on Painting in The Moor's Last Sigh
WOLFGANG BENDER: African Music Airwaves: From Colonial to Neocolonial Shores; Radio and Music in Africa
MARK STEIN: Discourses of Empire: Complicity and Disjunction in Jane Eyre
VICTOR J. RAMRAJ: Postcolonialist to Postmodernist: Paul Theroux's Promotion of V.S. Naipaul in Sir Vidia's Shadow
GÜNTER LENZ: Middle Passages: Histories, Re-Memories, and Black Diasporas in Novels by Toni Morrison, Charles Johnson, and Caryl Phillips
GORDON COLLIER: Stormy Weather in Walcott's Omeros and the In-Gathering of Cultural Traditions
HELEN TIFFIN: Colonies, Consumption and Climate
GEOFFREY V. DAVIS: “The country we might have been”: The Experience of War in Canadian and Australian Literature
JANET WILSON: Teaching the New Zealand Novel: Prose-Poetry and the Ideology of the “Third Way”
LISELOTTE GLAGE: Rewriting or Writing Back? Witi Ihimaera's Dear Miss Mansfield

Life and Letters
VINEY KIRPAL: Dear Dieter
ANNA RUTHERFORD: Dear Dieter
DOREEN CAMPBELL: Five Stars for Mr Tompkins
SYD HARREX: Dieter at the Wheel
JAN KEMP: Professor Dietrich on the Dachstein
GERHARD STILZ: Sketches of the Indian Scene

Centred on the Edge
DIETER RIEMENSCHNEIDER: The Function of Labour in M. R. Anand’s Novels
DIETER RIEMENSCHNEIDER: Intercultural Communication: Minority Writing in the Post-Colonial World; The Caribbean-Canadian Connection
DIETER RIEMENSCHNEIDER: A Select Bibliography