Word & image in colonial and postcolonial literatures and cultures

424 Pages·2009·5.19 MB·English

by  Meyer, Michael

Word & Image
C ro ss
Readings in the Post / Colonial
ultures
Literatures in English
116
ASNEL Papers 14
Series Editors
Gordon Collier †Hena Maes–Jelinek Geoffrey Davis
(Giessen) (Liège) (Aachen)
ASNEL Papers appear under the auspices of the
Gesellschaft für die Neuen Englischsprachigen Literaturen e.V. (GNEL)
Association for the Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL)
Mark Stein, President
(English Department, University of Münster)
Formatting, layout and final editing: Gordon Collier
Word & Image
in Colonial and Postcolonial
Literatures and Cultures
ASNEL Papers 14
Edited by
Michael Meyer
Amsterdam - New York, NY 2009
Cover collage: Gordon Collier
Cover design: Pier Post
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix
Illustrations and Permissions xi

Introduction
Word & Image – Gaze & Spectacle
MICHAEL MEYER xvii

COLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS

Liberating the Strange Fish
Visual Representations of Caliban and Their Successive
Emancipation from Shakespeare’s Original Text
DANIEL JACZMINSKI 1
Hogarth and the Other
PETER WAGNER 21
“The free treatment of topics usually taboo’d”
Glimpses of the Harem in Eighteenth- and
Nineteenth-Century Literature and the Fine Arts
PATRICIA PLUMMER 47
Tourist Places, Other Gazes
Robert Louis Stevenson’s Edinburgh
CORDULA LEMKE 69

POSTCOLONIAL REPRESENTATIONS

“Picture is a Silent Talker” (Apagya)
African Studio Photography in the English Classroom
GISELA FEURLE 87
A Black and White Nation?
The ‘New’ South Africa in Zapiro’s Cartoons
SONJA ALTNÖDER 107
Zakes Mda’s Representation of South African Reality
in Ways of Dying, The Madonna of Excelsior and The Whale Caller
MARITA WENZEL 125
Looking Out and Looking In
The Dynamic Use of Words and Images
in the Oeuvre of Breyten Breytenbach
HEILNA DU PLOOY 147
Whiteness as a Category of Literary Analysis
Racializing Markers and Race-Evasiveness in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace
SUSAN ARNDT 167
“Just for show”
Visuality in Timothy Mo’s The Monkey King
ANN SPANGENBERG 191
On Pickles, Pictures, and Words:
Pick-torial Preservation and Verbal Self-Regeneration
in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
LAURENCE PETIT 205
“Neither united nor separated”
Negotiating Difference in Ashutosh Gowariker’s
Lagaan and Ketan Mehta’s Mangal Pandey
LUCIA KRÄMER 219
Transcultural Gender Interrogations in Bride and Prejudice
Intertextual Encounters of the South Asian Diasporic Kind
CHRISTINE VOGT–WILLIAM 237
Missing in Act(i)on
Asian-British Pop Music Between Resistance and Commercialization
RAINER EMIG 261
Vernacular Landscape
Narrative Space in Peter Carey’s True History of the Kelly Gang
RENATE BROSCH 279
Regaining the Past and Shaping the Present
Indigenous Children’s Fiction from Aotearoa
New Zealand, Canada, and the USA
MICHAELA MOURA–KOÇOĞLU 305
Between Words and Images
Negotiating the Meaning of Home in
Ken Lum’s There Is No Place Like Home
NICOLE SCHRÖDER 327
The Mass-Slaughter of Native Americans
in Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man
A Complex Interplay of Word and Image
JENS MARTIN GURR 353

Notes on Contributors 373

Acknowledgements

As the organizer of the Annual Conference of the Association for the
Study of the New Literatures in English (ASNEL) and the editor of the
present proceedings, I should like to express my sincere thanks to all those
who contributed to these two projects. I am heavily indebted to Frank
Schulze–Engler, Heinz Antor, Vera Christoph, and Henning Schäfer for
helping to establish important contacts and for providing support for
plenary speakers. I am very grateful to the ASNEL, the British Council,
the Gesellschaft für Kanada-Studien and the Cultural Personalities Ex-
change Program of the Government of Canada, the Friends of the Uni-
versity in Koblenz e.V. and the University of Koblenz–Landau for finan-
cial support, the publishers Rodopi and Narr/Francke for providing
resources. I would like to thank the secretary of the department, Gisela
Anheier, and the students Kerstin Eichler, Steffen Foellmer, Alexandra
Gaida, Athar Husain, Tina Hopp, and Monika Reif for their untiring
efforts and warm spirit that helped to make the conference a successful
academic and social event. Finally, I would like to express my gratitude to
Gisela Anheier, Fred Thompson, and Julia Jung, who helped with proof-
reading, Christa Stevens from Rodopi for her advice and patience, and
Gordon Collier, whose expertise as a technical editor gave this volume the
final shape and polish.