Postcolonial Gateways and Walls : Under Construction

Introduction: Gateways And Walls, Or The Power And Pitfalls Of Postcolonial Metaphors / Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson -- I. Gateways And Walls: Between East And West -- Clothing The Borders: Dress As A Signifier In Colonial And Post-colonial Space / Gareth Griffiths -- As Rare As Rubies: Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-literature? / Elena Furlanetto -- The Bosphorus Syndrome / Gerhard Stilz -- Geography Fabulous: Conrad And Ghosh / Padmini Mongia -- The Concomitant Spaces Of Territory And Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides / Marta Dvořák -- Ii. Under Construction: Nations And Cultures -- Towards An Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation Of Enlightenment Thinking In Murray Bail's The Pages / Marie Herbillon -- Image-i-nation: Africa/nation, Identity, And The Nation(s) Within / Bronwyn Mills -- Refugees And Three Short Stories From Sri Lanka / Simran Chadha -- Gateway To The Unknowable: The Kala Pani In Amitav Ghosh's Sea Of Poppies And Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès / John C. Hawley -- Postcolonial Literature In The Time Of World Literature / Deepika Marya -- Iii. The Border: Wall Or Gateway? -- Die Mauer Is No Joke!: The Berlin Wall In Cilla Mcqueen's Berlin Diary And In The Works Of Kapka Kassabova / Claudia Duppé -- The Wall As Signifier In Ivan Vladislavic's Works / Carmen Concilio -- Enclosed: Nature. Carol Shields' Textual Mazes / Vera Alexander -- An Ethics Of Mourning: Loss And Transnational Dynamics In The Shadow Lines By Amitav Ghosh / Golnar Nabizadeh -- Iv. Gendered Gateways And Walls -- The Mirage Of Europe In Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore And Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street / Elisabeth Bekers -- Desexing The Crone: Intentional Invisibility As Postcolonial Retaliation In Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman And Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress Of Spices / Devon Campbell-hall -- The Burden Of Possessions: A Postcolonial Reading Of Letters From Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, And Lilian Ngoyi / M. J. Daymond -- Gendered Gateways: Australian Surfing And The Construction Of Masculinities In Tim Winton's Breath / Sissy Helff. Edited By Daria Tunca, Janet Wilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.