Postcolonial Gateways and Walls : Under Construction.

Intro -- Postcolonial Gateways and Walls: Under Construction -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Gateways and Walls, or the Power and Pitfalls of Postcolonial Metaphors -- I. GATEWAYS AND WALLS: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST -- Clothing the Borders: Dress as a Signifier in Colonial and Post-Colonial Space -- "As Rare as Rubies": Did Salman Rushdie Invent Turkish American-Literature? -- The Bosphorus Syndrome -- Geography Fabulous: Conrad and Ghosh -- The Concomitant Spaces of Territory and Writing: Crossing Cultural Divides -- II. UNDER CONSTRUCTION: NATIONS AND CULTURES -- Towards an Australian Philosophy: Constructive Appropriation of Enlightenment Thinking in Murray Bail's The Pages -- Image-i-nation: Africa/nation, Identity, and the Nation(s) Within -- Refugees and Three Short Stories from Sri Lanka -- Gateway to the Unknowable: The Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bénarès -- Postcolonial Literature in the Time of World Literature -- 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 -- The Wall as Signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's Works -- Enclosed: Nature. Carol Shields' Textual Mazes -- An Ethics of Mourning: Loss and Transnational Dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh -- IV. GENDERED GATEWAYS AND WALLS -- The Mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street -- 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 -- The Burden of Possessions: A Postcolonial Reading of Letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi.

Gendered Gateways: Australian Surfing and the Construction of Masculinities in Tim Winton's Breath -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

This collection of essays focuses on the evocative figures of the 'gateway' and the 'wall' - both literal and metaphorical - to reflect on the state of postcolonial studies, a dynamic discipline that may itself be seen as permanently 'under construction'.

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