Borderlands

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Acknowledgements. Introduction. I BOUNDARIES OF THEORY Frank SCHULZE-ENGLER: Changing Spaces. Globalization, Migration, and the Post-Colonial Transition. Zbigniew BIALAS: Ambition and Distortion. An Ontological Dimension in Colonial Cartography. Martina GHOSH-SCHELLHORN: Spaced In-Between. Transitional Identities. J.E. ELLIOTT: What's 'Post' in Post-Colonial Theory? II RECLAIMING HISTORY AND MEMORY Aleida ASSMANN: Space, Place, Land. Changing Concepts of Territory in English and American Fiction. Judie NEWMAN: Spaces In-Between. Hester Prynne as the Salem Bibi in Bharati Mukherjee's The Holder of the World. Monika GOMILLE: Curiosity in Post-Colonial Discourse. Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia. Gabriele RIPPL: I Do Not Take Messages from Dead People. Cultural, Linguistic and Personal Boundaries in Pauline Melville's Shape-Shifter. III REPOSSESSING GENDER Felicity HAND: Negotiating Boundaries in the Horn of Africa. Women in the Fiction of Nuruddin Farah. Flora VEIT-WILD: Borderlines of the Body in African Women's Writing. Claire CONNOLLY: (Be)longing. The Strange Place of Elisabeth Bowen's Eva Trout. Emilia IPPOLITO: Room as a Catalyst of Differences. In Search of Autonomous Subjectivity in the Caribbean (Con)text of Jamaica Kincaid. IV IMAGINARY SPACES Gamal ABDEL-SHEHID: Can't Forget Ben. Representational Ambiguities and Canadian Nationalism. Norbert PLATZ: Rediscovering the Forgotten Space of Nature. A Plea for Ecocriticism in the New Literatures in English. Werner SEDLAK: Ways of Appropriating Space in South African Prison Memoirs. From Ruth First to Nelson Mandela. Jesus LOPEZ-PELAEZ CASELLAS: Forms of Exile in the Narrative of Mohamed Choukri and Joyce's Portrait. V SHIFTING THE BORDERS - STAGING THE DIFFERENCE Nicholas DALY: Post-Colonial Carnival (?) Neil Jordan's The Crying Game. Gordon COLLIER: Catching Up on the Third World? Post-Coloniality in the Cinema of the Settler-Colonies. Monica TURCI: People In-Between. Running in the Family as Fictional Biography. Walter GOBEL: Teaching Nigerian Novels. Hermeneutic and Didactic Aspects. VI CODA Monika REIF-HULSER: Cross-Cuts. In Lieu of a Resume. Contributors.