Editor: Christine Lorre-Johnston
CONTENTS
Confluence/Reconstruction
ConfluenceClaire Omhovère, Confluence. Introduction, 5
Marie Herbillon, "Remapping Australia: Murray Bail's New Topographies of the Self in the
Notebooks", 9
Adrian Grafe, "Type, Personalisation and Depersonalisation in J. M. Coetzee's
Waiting for the Barbarians", 23
Alice Michel, "Convergence and Divergence in Ada Cambridge's
A Woman's Friendship", 33
Sara Arami, "Encounter, Clash, and Confluence: Mohja Kahf's
The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf", 43
Cédric Courtois, "'In this Country, the Very Air We Breathe Is Politics': Helen Habila and the Flowing Together of Politics and Poetics", 55
Sandrine Soukaï, "The Hybridity of Partition Novels in English: Reshaping National Identities in Amitav Ghosh's
The Shadow Lines and Kamila Shamsie's
Burnt Shadows", 69
Reconstruction
Salhia Ben Messahel, and Katie Birat, Reconstruction. Introduction, 81
Pascal Zinck, "In Romesh Gunesekera's Ghost Country", 85
Jaine Chemmachery, "'Bricks Are Undoubtedly an Essential Ingredient of Civilisation': Layers of Reconstruction in J. G. Farrell's
The Siege of Krishnapur (1973)", 97
Anne-Sophie Letessier, "'Isn't the Place Only Ruins and Vacancies Now': Reconstructions in Jane Urquhart's
A Map of Glass" (2005), 109
Cédric Courtois, '"Thou Shalt not Lie with Mankind as with Womankind: It is Abomination!: Lesbian (Body-)
Bildung in Chinelo Okparanta's
Under the Udala Trees (2015), 119
Myriam Moïse, "'
Ain't I a Woman?' Grace Nichols and M. NourbeSe Philip Re-Membering and Healing the Black Female Body", 135
ReviewsReviewed by Charlotte Sturgess,
Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie and Jason Purcell, 149
Reviewed by Christine Lorre-Johnston,
Thinking Literature Across Continents. By Ranjan Gosh and J. Hillis Miller, 151
Reviewed by Fiona McCann,
Decolonizing Sexualities. Transnational Perspectives, Critical Interventions, Edited by Sandeep Bakshi,Suhraiya Jivraj, and Silvia Posocco, 153
Reviewed by Claire Omhovère,
Postocolonial Literary Geographies: Out of Place. By John Thieme, 155
Contributors, 157