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Title Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures / edited by Michael Meyer.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009.

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Description 1 online resource (xliii, 379 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Cross/cultures : readings in the post/colonial literatures in English ; 116
ASNEL papers ; 14
Cross/cultures ; 116.
ASNEL papers ; 14.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Note "ASNEL Papers appear under the auspices of the Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen e.V. (GNEL)"--Prelimimary page.
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 ; Mass-slaughter of native Americans in Jim Jarmusch's Dead man : a complex interplay of word and image / Jens Martin Gurr.
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Subject Postcolonialism and the arts.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Visual communication in art.
Visual communication in art.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Intercultural communication in literature.
Intercultural communication in art.
Intercultural communication in art.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Meyer, Michael, 1958-
Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen.
Added Title Word and image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures
Other Form: Print version: Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures. Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2009 9789042027435 (OCoLC)455845971
ISBN 9789042027442 (electronic book)
9042027444 (electronic book)