Titlebook: Imagined Commonwealth; Cambridge Essays on T. J. Cribb (Fellow of Churchill College) Book 1999 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan

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IVORY

In the Shadow of Language: from Joyce to Okrializing literatures, and it is founded on an historical experience which includes the whole range of colonial and postcolonial experience, with two exceptions — downright slavery and voluntary union, as in the case of Scotland.

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African-language Literature and Postcolonial Criticismlocal historical and social pressures are elided.. Despite intermittent claims to specificity, this model blocks a properly historical, localized understanding of any scene of colonial and post-Independence literary production in Africa.

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pacifist

‘The Culture of Displacement and its Effects’: Frazer, Freud and Othersgist of the old school, who rarely left his Cambridge college and who certainly never met the objects of his study, was able to gather his information. That second objective is where this essay begins, but, one feels, one could go on for ever…and so it ends in a very different place, with a dead poe

Odyssey

Wordmaps for Chaos: a New Geographismommunication. It simplifies and falsifies the varieties of English into a homogeneous norm at the same time as it makes the norm internationally accessible. Modern writers (or rather speakers) using their own Englishes across the world have to choose between their regional riches and the homogenized

Fibroid

Cambridge English and Commonwealth Literaturey conservative. Provocation is not the intention. It is put forward in the spirit promoted by Edward Said at the beginning of his .: ‘In this sense of its own difference, therefore, this book begins by explicitly venturing a particular ambition for itself, an ambition that finally becomes intelligib

Ventilator

Child at the FrontierEN conference which had for its theme: ‘The Writer at the Frontier’. I could not attend, but I found myself for some time afterwards quite fixated on the notion of a ‘frontier’ inhabited by writers masquerading as customs and immigration officials — that kind of waking nightmare in which roles are r

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orthopedist

Fens, Rivers, Droughtsia. They are especially significant to me as a poet, for I grew up beside them and find myself constantly drawing on them for imagery and comparison. Likewise the wheatbelt area of the Avon Valley where my family worked the farm wheatlands over a number of generations, my cousins and uncle still mai