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Preliminary Material -- Editorial Preface to the First Issue of the New Series -- Introduction: Newness, Survival, Place -- Dual Citizenship, Elsewhereness, and the Sources of Creativity /Shani Mootoo -- 1. How to Imaglne Plurality? -- Des poétiques de relation et de globalisation dans la Caraïbe francophone /Suzanne Crosta -- Doing Away With Boundaries: Canadian Writers of Caribbean and Asian Descent /Judith Misrahi-Barak -- Redefining Culture, Politicizing Nature: Negotiating the Essentialism of Natural Metaphors of Identification in the Work of James Clifford and Aimé Césaire /Dominique Licops -- 2. Locations of Power, Sites of Resistance -- Un dictateur subalterne? Apropos d'Une peine à vivre /Luc Rasson -- Evelyn Accad ou la blessure des mots /Marie-Agnès Sourieau -- Public Violence Enters the Private: Assia Djebar and Hanan al-Shaykh on Civil War /Inge Boer -- The Fanonian Theory of Violence in Women's Fiction from the Caribbean /Odile Ferly -- The ‘Unfettered Vacuum’ – A Postcolonial Reading of Journey to Ithaca and Fasting Feasting /Chandra Chatterjee -- 3. New Strategies of (Re)Writing -- Integrations and Mutations in Recent South African Writing /Marita Wenzel -- Pan-Caribbean Identity in the Writing of Haitian, Cuban, and Dominican Writers in America /Marie-José N'Zengou -- L'Echo de Narcisse, ou les voix du miroir: la nouvelle en Nouvelle-Calédonie /Eric Fougère -- Hispanicity and Resistance in Global Culture: the Stories of Zorro /Nadia Lie -- 4. Embodying Polyphony -- Eaux obscures du souvenir: femme et memoire dans I'œuvre d'Ananda Devi /Véronique Bragard -- Polyphonie et alterite dans Onitsha et Etoile Errante /Isa Van Acker -- Geographical and Generic Traversings in the Writings of Amitav Ghosh /Kanika Batra -- 5. Counter-readlngs: New Ways to Read New Writers -- Répéter les clichés? Représentations d'Haïti et du Brésil dans la littérature migrante du Québec /Eurídice Figueiredo -- Spatial Memory in Chaneysville Incident and Dear Future: New Literatures, History, and Literary History /Wim Van Mierio -- ‘Worldpainting’, Art-vaudou, et/ou Néo-baroque: le peintre haïtien Edouard Duval-Carrié /Carl-Hermann Middelanis -- A City Visible But Unseen /Nandini Bhattacharya -- The Contributors/Les collaborateurs -- Index. How does one imagine plurality? How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony? How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time? This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical frontiers by placing careful analysis of texts from different language traditions in a multi-lingual and multi-cultural dialogue. In this collection of theoretically and politically aware close readings of contemporary cultural production, the focus of analysis rests on the multiple and complex global convergences and interferences of cultural influences. The collection foregrounds the work of innovative writers who seek to express the ungraspable presence of cultural “newness” at the same time as situating themselves in the richness of detail of local lives. This volume, most particularly, finds a balance of critical approach between the everyday attempts at negotiation and survival, and the insight brought to the reader by postcolonial, syncretic and feminist theoretical analysis
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