Gendered gateways: Australian surfing and the construction of masculinities in Tim Winton's Breath / Sissy Helff. Gendered gateways and walls -- 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.
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