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Mohr, Dunja M. , 1968-

Embracing the other : addressing xenophobia in the new literatures in English / edited by Dunja M. Mohr.

Amsterdam ;   New York :   Rodopi ,   2008.  

xvii, 341 p. ; 23 cm.

Cross/cultures ; 95

9042023775 9789042023772

Poetry. One wing : home floats in the distance; Floating my presence; Stories retold / Susan N. Kiguli -- Theory, writing history, and textuality. Conditions of cross-cultural perceptions : the other looks back / Edwin Thumboo ; Benign xenophobia? The testimony of Maori literature / Judith Dell Panny ; "Daft questions" : xenophobia, teaching, and social semiosis in Caribbean-British fiction : using intertextuality and narratology to analyze a text by David Dabydeen / Russell West-Pavlov -- Migrant and border narratives. How brave is our new world? / Mala Pandurang ; Desire and loathing in Carlos Bulosan's "America is in the heart and Bienvenido Santo's The man who (thought he) looked like Robert Taylor / Danilo Victorino Manarpaac ; "Words of disenchantment" : alienation and change in Adib Khan's Seasonal adjustments / Vera Alexander ; Writing from the border, doing away with margins : Carl Muller's Sri Lankan Burgher narrative / Dipli Saikia ; The civilized ape / Virginia Richter -- Transitional states. Race and racism in contemporary Canadian fiction : M.G. Vassanji's No new land / Martin Genetsch ; White angst in South Africa : the apocalyptic visions of John Conyngham / Jochen Petzold ; Nadine Gordimer's later novels : or, the fiction of otherness / Natividad Martinez Marin -- Negotiating identity and alterity. Multicultural strategies and alterity : transgressing the other in contemporary Nigerian women's short stories / Mary E. Modupe Kolawole ; The other within : the Malaysian experience / Raihanah M.M. ; The resistance to being (em)braced : Peter Carey's Jack Maggs and David Malouf's Johnno / Jorg Heinke ; The difficulty of being : reading and speaking in Arundhati Roy's The god of small things / Sandhya Patel ; The quest for identity in Benjamin Zephaniah's poetry / Laurenz Volkmann -- Diaspora and orientalism. Stereotype, prejudice, and illusion in the Austral-Asian otherworld / David S. La Breche ; Desired erotica : gendered spaces in queer West Indian diasporic fiction / Sissy Helff ; Dramatizing alterity : relational characterization in postcolonial British Columbia plays / Ginny Ratsoy ; Disappointing expectations : native Canadian theatre and the politics of authenticity / Henning Schafer ; Embracing oneself and the other : overcoming racial hatred in South African drama / Haike Frank.

Includes bibliographical references.

Commonwealth literature (English) -- History and criticism. Cultural pluralism in literature. Racism in literature. Xenophobia.