Preface 1. Introduction: Situating the postcolonial 2. Postcolonial issues in performance 3. Alternative histories and writing back 4. Authorising the self: postcolonial autobiographical writing 5. Situating the self: landscape and place 6. Appropriating the word: language and voice 7. 'Narrating the nation': form and genre 8. Rewriting her story: nation and gender 9. Rewriting the nation: acknowledging economic and cultural diversity 10. Transnational and black British writing: colonising in reverse 11. Citizens of the world: reading postcolonial literature Glossary of critical terms Notes on main writers discussed Brief histories: Australia, The Caribbean, East Africa, India and Pakistan, Ireland, West Africa Bibliography.

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction combines innovative literary and historiographical analysis to investigate the way neo-Victorian novels conceptualise our relationship to the Victorian past, and to analyse their role in the production and communication of historical knowledge. Positioning neo-Victorian novels as dynamic participants in the contemporary historical imaginary, it explores their use of the Victorians' own vocabularies of history, memory and loss to re-member the nineteenth century today. While her focus is neo-Victorian fiction, Mitchell positions these novels in relation to debates about historical fiction's contribution to historical knowledge since the eighteenth century. Her use of memory discourse as a framework for understanding the ways in which they do lay claim to historical recollection, one which opens up a range of questions beyond historical fidelity on the one hand, and the problematics of representation on the other, suggests new ways of thinking about contemporary historical fiction and its prevalence, popular appeal, and nmnenonic function today.

History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction

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Postmodern Love? Auseinandersetzungen mit der Liebe in der britischen Literatur der 1990er Jahre

The study is an attempt to clarify the thematic misgivings J. M. Coetzee’s Booker Prize winning novel Disgrace has aroused by having a detailed discussion on the protagonist David Lurie, his stereotypical ambivalence and his disgrace, so as to reveal that under Coetzee’s lucid and evasive language, he intends to disclose the secret of disgrace for the whites in the new South Africa after the collapse of the apartheid system. Key words: David Lurie; Disgrace ; Stereotypical ambivalence

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Disgrace of Stereotypical Ambivalence: A Postcolonial Perspective on J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace

The Cambridge Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures in English: Appropriating the word: language and voice

(1995). A. S. Byatt's Self-Mirroring Art. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 36, No. 2, pp. 83-95.

A. S. Byatt's Self-Mirroring Art

The Truth-Tellers of William Trevor

(1993). The Voice of History in the Novels of J. M. Coetzee. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction: Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 3-15.

Julian Gitzen

Papers

A. S. Byatt's Self-Mirroring Art

The Truth-Tellers of William Trevor

The voice of history in the novels of J.M. Coetzee