Fusion of Cultures?

E d i t ed  by  P e t er  O.  S t u m m e r  a nd

C h r i s t o p h er  B a I m e

Amsterdam/Atlanta,  GA 1996.XII, 332 pp. ASNEL Papers 2

(Cross/Cultures  26)

ISBN: 90-420-0044-9
ISBN: 90-420-0043-0

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he  intention of this second volume  of ANSEL Papers is to counter  orthodox
post-colonial  emphases on "alterity",  "subversion",  and  "counter-discourse"  with
another set of concepts: fusion, syncretism, hybridity, creolisation, cross-fertilisation,
cross-cultural identity, diaspora. Topics covered include: gender and  identity; syn-
cretic aesthetics in Nigerian and South African performing arts; "hyphenated iden-
tities" in diasporic  fiction; reversals of colonial mimcry in Uganda  fiction;  cultural
reflexivity in the Victorian juvenile novel; the persistence of colonial traits in Zimba-
bwean  war fiction;  syncretic  strategies of resistance in African  prison  memoirs;
indigene  life-histories and  intercultural authorship;  neo-essentialism in post-colo-
nial  critiques  of the Rushdie  Affair;  US  multiculturalism  and  political  praxis;
creolisation in Surinam; cultural complexities in the Caribbean epic; literary repre-
sentations of the Haitian Revolution. Authors treated within  broader  frameworks
include Margaret Atwood, R.M Ballantye, Marie-Claire Blais. Alejo Carpent.er, Roch
Carrier,  Aime  Cesaire,  Michelle  Cliff,  Tsitsi Dangarembga,  Edouard  Glissant, An-
drew  Hacker,  Eddy L. Harris,  Wilson  Harris,  Bessie  Head,  C.L.R. James,  Maxine
Hong  Kingston, Jayanta  Mahapatra,  Paule Marshall, A;K. Mehrotra, Timothy Mo,
Bharat, Mukherjee.  Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Akik, Nyabongo, Eugene O'Neill.  Molefe
Pheto, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soy.nka, Ted Trindell, and Derek Walcott. There are
also poems by David Woods and Afua Cooper.

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