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Notes On Contributors, Index, Anna Rutherford

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Notes on Contributors, Index

Book Review: Jayanta Mahapatra, Temple. Dangaroo Press, 1989. 58 Pp, Jan Kemp

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Using the frame of two news reports from The Times of India (1980) of New Delhi and The Telegraph (1986) of Calcutta, regarding first an old couple who committed suicide because of poverty and loneliness and second, a young girl allegedly gang-raped and murdered, Mahapatra builds his poetic temple to the Indian woman. In a series of poems in four parts, a dream narrative, he mixes the worlds of dream and reality, so that in the end the Indian doctrine of illusion pervades the whole text.

Book Review: Wilson Harris, The Inßnite Rehearsal Faber And Faber, 1987, Michael Gilkes

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Wilson Harris's The Infinite Rehearsal is the most recent work in what is already a remarkable Bildungsrormn. It begins with a 'renegade' note from the protagonist, 'Robin Redbreast Glass', complaining:

The Steeple And The Palm-Wine Shack: Wole Soyinka And Crossing The Inter-Cultural Fence, David Moody

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The opening pages of the text of Wole Soyinka's play The Rooif are taken up with several projects of introduction, offering the reader alternative ways into the work's mysteries. There is a note Tor the Producer' explaining the mask-idiom of the Agemo cult which is this work's central ritual model. There is 'Alagemo', a poem also centering on the 'Agemo' cult. Thirdly, there is a detailed description of the work's stage geography. I want to begin this paper by noting this de-scription exactly:

The Mapping Of A World':^ Discourses Of Power In David Malouf S Fly Away Peter, Amanda Nettelbeck

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In an historical analysis of language and the ideology underwriting it, Michel Pecheux argues that all struggles of perception and belief arise from a relationship of contradictions between and within discourses, since 'thought exists only within a determination which imposes edges, separations and limits on it, in other words ... "thought" is determined in its "forms" and its "contents" by the unthought... [In discourse] the unasserted precedes and dominates the assertion'.

The Dry Season, David P. Reiter

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It stared at me side-on through the window, head tilted, green eyes pulsing. As if it expected me to jump through the dusty pane to leap at its throat. I suppose its an old dilemma: the very thing that stirs the blood also makes it tremble. But then, with a peck at the glass, its fear gave way to curiosity. I was fresh. And unfamiliar.

Writing The Self: Barbara Hanrahan's The Scent Of Eucalyptus, Sue Thomas

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Currently there is a good deal of critical interest in Australian auto-biography.^ To my mind, though, much of it does not engage sufficient-ly with theoretical and methodological issues associated with the genre. One web of issues which interests me in particular is how memories are produced, shaped into pattern, and placed in narrative. Writers of auto-biography, I would argue, situate their subjectivity in varying literary and culturally specific discourses of self. Autobiographical narratives need to be read intertextually with these discourses of self. I use the term 'subjectivity^ in a poststructuralist sense:

Poems, Jan Kemp

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APPEASEMENT for Jay anta Mahapatra, IN MENTON AFTER EACLALS AT NICE for Andy Gurr

Story And Interview, Elleke Boehmer

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Kaya, Poet to Poet

The Portrayal Of Women In African Literature, Emmanuel Ngara

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Before I go into the subject matter of my paper let me explain that my observations on the portrayal of women in African literature should be seen in relation to three basic assumptions. First, works of art issue from historical conditions and are reflections of particular social condi-tions and relationships. By this I mean that the views of women ex-pressed by male African writers do to some extent correspond to the actual position of women in African society. My second assumption is that there is no literature which is above class interests, by which I mean that the works of …

Sexual Politics In Malawian Popular Fiction: The Case Of Aubrey Kalitera's Why Father Why, Mpalive-Hangson Msiska

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Aubrey Kalitera is one of the most prolific writers of popular fiction in Malawi. He has published numerous novels and short stories. In 1976, his novel No Taste of Business was published by Heinemann East Africa. Since then, however, he has followed the example of David Maillu of Kenya by setting up on his own: writing, printing and distributing his own works. In 1987, Kalitera surprised Malawi by producing and direct-ing what is perhaps the first ever commercial film to be made locally.^ He is one of several writers within the country trying to provide a Malawian form of popular …

Poems, Anthony Lawrence

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THE GHOSTS OF A CARTOON LIFE for Beverly Bourne, CRO-KILL

Poems, B. W Benyon

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TRINITY BEACH, ON FTTZROY ISLAND

Imaginary Sailors, Polynesia, Jennifer Woodhouse

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Steering by starpath and the flight of birds, by ocean swell and cross-current and changing winds they guided their canoes to distant landfalls, the voyage lacing sea to land as nets lace space to markers.

Poems, Philip Salom

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WINDOW MANNEQUIN, SCOTS CASTLE

Resisting The Map As Metaphor: A Comparison Of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing And Janet Frame's Scented Gardens For The Blind, Graham Huggan

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Similarities between the work of Margaret Atwood, in Canada, and Janet Frame, in New Zealand, are indicative of a cross-cultural concern for the position of the woman writer in the New World. This combination of trenchant satire and introspective lyricism in their novels, for example, can be taken as deriving from a common desire to undermine the dominant power-structures of their respective societies and to re-value the inner life which those societies have violated, repressed or neglected. For both Atwood and Frame, the problems of the post-colonial writer, converging with those of the woman writer, condense into the central issue …

Sleeping's Beauty And The Prince Charming, Erna Brodber

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That wicked fairy had really done Sleeping a favour. Yes. God does work in a mysterious way. The poor child had been so tired she really needed the seven years sleep.

Kunapipi 11 (3) 1989, Contents, Editorial, Anna Rutherford

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Kunapipi 11 (3) 1989, Contents, Editorial

Notes Of Contributors, Editorial Board, Anna Rutherford

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Notes of Contributors, Editorial Board

The Visual Image Of The Child In Western And African Art, Kanchana Ugbabe

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It is assumed that before about the middle of the seventeenth century the symbol of the child or indeed any sort of awareness of childhood was non-existent in the Western world, the child being then a shadowy figure, existing in the periphery, unimportant, therefore unattended. 'Rational man in conflict with an impersonal universe was the theme of pre-romantic literature,' writes the critic of Henry James, 'the unformed, unthinking child had no role to play in it.'^ Peter Covene/s observation on the treatment of children as subsidiary elements in an adult world is that 'until the last decades of the eighteenth …

Parents And Power In Nuruddin Farah's Dictatorship Trilogy, Derek Wright

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Nuruddin Farah has never been one of those African writers who have looked to the traditional past for refuge and sanctuary from the evils of the post-colonial era and his fiction has been slow to recognize the positive strengths and reconstructive potential of traditional cultural values and modes of expression. Certainly, he has not conceived the latter as unsullied alternatives and possible modes of counter-discourse to the corruption, political tyranny and neo-imperialism which have overtaken his native Somalia since Syad Barre's Soviet-backed coup of 1969. Rather, the traditional forms have been implicated in the new trials and terrors of the …

Poems, John Haynes

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FAMILY, FOLK VISION

Sitting In The Club Car Drinking Rum And Karma-Kola: Subverting Tradition As Beginning, Catherine J. Fenn

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Patricia Waugh, in Metafiction: the Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction,^ defines the metafictional novel in terms which are useful when considering Paulette Jiles' novel Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Kola {Club Car)} In simplest terms, metafiction is 'fictional writing which self-consciously and systematically draws attention to its status as an arteface in order to pose questions about the relationship between fiction and realit/ (p. 2). Jiles invites her audience to take part in the very process of her writing. We, as readers, are aware that Jiles' text is artifice. She is self-conscious about that text, the …

Poems, Steven Heighton

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PATPHONG ROAD (#1), SKY BURIAL, INUKSHUK

Short Stories, Kamau Brathwaite

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Meridian,

The Private Landscape of Meaning or the Public Landscape of Politics: Stephen Gray Interviews Dan Jacobson

Children And History In The Caribbean Novel: George Lamming's In The Castle Of My Skin And Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, Craig Tapping

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In my own research and teaching of Commonwealth hterature, I am ever more conscious of a dilenmia confronting those who would wrestle with contemporary theory and yet remain committed to the cultural practices and literatures being produced on the decentered margins of former Empire.^ Contemporary theory, first generated from within academics of the 'developed' world, is then exported for use in explaining, debasing, and re-inscribing subordinate positions for the subjects and creators of literature from the so-called 'underdeveloped' world Theorists either reinscribe the canonicity of the very texts they claim to 'decenter', or use Euro-American ideologies of language and textuality …

Living And Writing In The Caribbean: An Experiment, Caryl Phillips

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While recovering from the shock of having met somebody who has the audacity to describe themselves as a writer, the innocent, in my experience, generally scratches about for a while trying to think of something interesting to say about the curious profession of the person before them. 'Well, it must be quite insecure,' venture some; others might ask, T)o you do anything else but write?' The more daring come straight to the point. 'I'd write if I had more spare time.' Occasionally somebody will say, 'It must be nice being able to live and work where you like.' This last …

The Great South Land, Susan Hawthorne

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A traveller stayed here at the Herberge last night. I sat and listened as he told stories to my father and anyone else who would listen. He drank ale and as the night drew on the stories became more and more fantastic.

Poems, Riemke Ensing

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INNER GARDENS (to Zhang Weiping in prison), TAI CHI QUAN

Poems, Jan Owen

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FORNACE VIVARINI Murano, Venice, HEARTSEASE,