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Alaraways historicise! neoconservatism, postmodernism, and new historicism Harold Bloom. 1994. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. Fredric Jameson. 1991. Postmodernism, Or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism. New York: Duke University Press. Stephen Greenblatt. 1991. Marvellous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World, Oxford: Clarendon Press The pitfalls and pleasures of post‐colonial parallels David Lloyd. 1993. Anomalous States: Irish Writing and the Post‐Colonial Moment. Dublin: Lilliput Press. Terry Eagleton. 1995. Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture. London: Verso. Declan Kiberd. 1995. Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation. London: Jonathan Cape. New literary histories for the new South Africa Michael Chapman. 1996. Southern African Literatures. Harlow: Longman. 533pp. Johannes A Smit, Johan van Wyk and Jean‐Philippe Wade (eds). 1996. Rethinking South African Literary History. Durban: Y Press. 250pp. ‘(An)other story to tell’: locating India among postcolonial dissensions. Breckenridge, Carol and Peter van der Veer (eds). 1994. Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Arnold, David and David Hardiman (eds). 1994. Subaltern Studies VIII: Essays in Honour of Ranajit Guha. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Sexuality and racial power: South African feminist historiography Jeater, D. 1993. Marriage, Perversion and Power: The Construction of Moral Discourse in Southern Rhodesia, 1894–1930. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 281pp. Marks, S. 1994. Divided Sisterhood: Race, Class and Gender in the South African Nursing Profession. London: St Martins Press. 306pp. McClintock, A. 1995. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. London: Routledge. 449pp. Literary history: A thing of the present Erhard Reckwitz, Karin Reittier, and Lucia Vennarini (organisers). 1996. Symposium: “South African Literary History: Totality and/or Fragment”. Institute for Cultural Sciences, University of Essen, Germany (July).1