Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Volume 23, Issue 1 (1984)

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World Literature Written in English, Volume 23, Issue 1 (1984)

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Introduction
Pages: 1-2
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Opening plenary session

Opening address
R.P. Throssell
Pages: 3-5
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The green yet ageing orange tree
John Matthews
Pages: 5-11
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Opening Panel
Beyond Nationalism: On Regionalism
W.H. New
Pages: 12-18
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Opening Panel
A plea for literariness in commonwealth studies
J.P. Durix
Pages: 18-20
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Opening Panel
Women and literature: Ending the stereotype
Yasmine Gooneratne
Pages: 20-25
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Opening Panel
Commonwealth literature and comparative methodology
Helen Tiffin
Pages: 26-30
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Selected papers on designated authors

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Christina Stead and the Bildungsroman
Rudolf Bader
Pages: 31-39
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Maurice Gee's Trilogy: “An attempt to understand”
Trevor James
Pages: 40-52
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Fictional landscape: Mythology and dialectic in the fiction of Alice Munro
Andrew Stubbs
Pages: 53-62
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A Caribbean Don Juan: Derek Walcott's Joker of Seville
John Thieme
Pages: 62-75
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Selected papers on the conference theme

Re‐writing The Tempest
Diana Brydon
Pages: 75-88
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An aboriginal present: Canadian and Australian literature in the 1920s
Terry Goldie
Pages: 88-96
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Political power and social flexibility in African and Australian novels
Ken Goodwin
Pages: 96-108
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Colony, nationhood and beyond: Third world writers and critics contend with Joseph Conrad
Robert Hamner
Pages: 108-116
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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The trouble with myth: Modern Indian‐English
S.C. Harrex
Pages: 117-128
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“'Tis Sixty Years Since”: Timothy Findley's The Wars and Roger McDonald's 1915
Coral Ann Howells
Pages: 129-136
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Singapore: Poet, Critic, Audience
Peter Hyland
Pages: 137-145
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The role of American literature in colonial and post‐colonial cultures
Bruce King
Pages: 146-154
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Joker ‐ Playing poetry in the eighties: Manhire, Curnow, Stead, Horrocks
Michele Leggott
Pages: 154-164
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Altering boundaries: The art of translation in The angel at the gate and The Twyborn affair
Hena Maes‐Jelinek
Pages: 165-174
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“Men in fetters … a picture of man's state
Avis G. McDonald
Pages: 174-181
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Before nationalism: Canada, Australia and New Zealand
Bruce Nesbitt
Pages: 181-187
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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V.S. Naipaul: The irrelevance of nationalism
Victor J. Ramraj
Pages: 187-196
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History and the individual in Anita Desai's clear light of day and Salman Rushdie's midnight children
Dieter Reimenschneider
Pages: 196-207
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Pour mieux sauter: Christopher Koch's novels in relation to white, stow and the quest for a post‐colonial fiction
Paul Sharrad
Pages: 208-223
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Black and white and the literature of empire
Chris Tiffin
Pages: 224-233
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Colonial, post‐colonial, neo‐colonial and, at last, a “post‐national” Drama
Margaret Yong
Pages: 234-242
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Panel on language
The role of vernacular literatures in contemporary commonwealth writing
Loreto Todd
Pages: 243-244
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Panel on language
Patterns of conflict/patterns of adaptation: Some hypotheses for a preliminary charting
Claudio Gorlier
Pages: 245-251
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Closing plenary session

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Third world literature: Purpose or indulgence?
Arthur Ravenscroft
Pages: 252-261
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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Reflections and conclusions
Andrew Gurr, Margaret Yong, Diana Brydon, Peter Simpson, Kirpal Singh & C.D. Narasimhaiah
Pages: 261-271
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Editorial board
Page: ebi
Published online: 18 Jul 2008
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