CONTENTS

• Marta DVORAK, Foreword, 3
• Lourdes LOPEZ-ROPERO, Homage and Revision: Zadie Smith's Use of E.M. Forster in On Beauty, 7
• Kevin FRANK, Censuring the Praise of Alienation: Interstices of Ante-Alienation in Achebe's Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God, 21
• Maik NWOSU, A Poetics of Laughter: Characterizing the African Comic Novel, 35
• Nathanael O'REILLY, Environmental Degradation, Indigenous Displacement, and Non-Indigenous Belonging: Suburbia in Tim Winton's "Aquifer" and Liam Davison's "Neary's Horse", 47
• Mike GRIMSHAW, "My Name Was Christian": C.K. Stead, Religion, Culture, and National Identity, 61
• Anne LE GUELLEC, Strategies of Colour, Mysticism of Form in Anita Desai's In Custody, 75
• Omar SOUGOU, Rethinking Androcentric Representation of Women in African Literature, 87
• Mathilde ROGEZ, "I Am Making a Start; or, If Not That, Making a Gesture": An Attempt to Read J.M. Coetzee's Aesthetics of Tentativeness, 99
• Kola EKE, Wordsworth and Nigerian Poetry: Niyi Osundare as a Case in Point, 111

Reviews

• Saskia SCHABIO, Readings of the Particular. The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Ed. Anne Holden Ronning and Lene Johannessen, 123
• Peter MARSDEN, The Ship of Dreams: Masculinity in Contemporary New Zealand Fiction. By Alistair Fox, 125