Selected essays from the Fourteenth International Conference on the Literature of Region and Nation, Pécs University, 20-24 June 2012. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Postcolonialism, Celticity, and the nation-state: interrogating old and new multiculturalisms in Europe and beyond / Silke Stroh -- Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee: Nobel laureates in their place and time / Michael Chapman -- The testament of Gideon Mack: jangling the universal nerve? / Anne McKim -- The power of storytelling: bird tales by Shakespeare and Hungarians / Karoline Szatek-Tudor -- Writing (non)fiction: on Polish problems with life-writing / Robert Kusek -- From Misanthrope to Miseryguts: Liz Lochhead's naturalization of Molière -- Medieval world, modern world: the making of a nation. The Welsh Mabinogion in modern adaptations / Carlos Mingo -- "Hamelie language" and Translatio Studii in Robert Henryson's Moral fables / Robert Nicholson -- Home thoughts from abroad: slavery and cultural memory in contemporary Caribbean writing / Claudia Marquis -- Contemporary female authors imagining the postcolonial nation: two examples / Annie Gagiano -- Reconstructing the "hostile space": transnational identities and imaginary geographies in Aboulela's The translator and Minaret / Ileana Dimitriu -- Cartographic sport/throttled stories: re-reading 1947 India/Pakistan / Shreya Bhattacharji -- "We just are": narrative construction of liminality in bidirectional assimilation among second- and third-generation Hungarian-Americans / Monika Fodor -- Identity on board: crossing the Atlantic in "The pension beaurepas" and "The point of view" / Madalina Stanescu -- Mapping Canadian identity in Margaret Laurence's Heart of a stranger / Gertrud Szamosi.
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