Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Contributors v
4. Acknowledgments vi
5. Introduction 1
6. Postcolonial/Commonwealth Studies in the Caribbean: Points of Difference 11
7. Proximities: From Asymptote to Zeugma 19
8. Looking in from ‘‘Beyond’’: Commonwealth Studies in French Universities 39
9. Climbing Mount Everest: Postcolonialism in the Culture of Ascent 51
10. Afrikaners, Africans and Afriquas: Métissage in Breyten Breyten-bach’s Return to Paradise 75
11. Inheritance in Question: The Magical Realist Mode in Afrikaans Fiction 87
12. Natal Women’s Letters in the 1850s: Ellen McLeod, Eliza Feilden, Gender and ‘‘Second-World’’ Ambi/valence 99
13. Rural Women and African Resistance: Lauretta Ngcobo’s And They Didn’t Die 115
14. Five Minutes of Silence: Voices of Iranian Feminists in the Postrevolutionary Age 133
15. FAS and Cultural Discourse: Who Speaks for Native Women? 145
16. Can Rohinton Mistry’s Realism Rescue the Novel? 157
17. Dislocations of Culture: Unhousing and the Unhomely in Salman Rushdie’s Shame 167
18. A Vision of Unity: Brathwaite, Ngugi, Rushdie and the Quest for Authenticity 181
19. Cowboy Songs, Indian Speeches and the Language of Poetry 189
20. Index 209