Connecting cultures/ edited by Emma Bainbridge. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. - x, 178 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Connecting Cultures;
2. Translating Terror;
3. The Narratives and Counter-narratives of Zimbabwean Asylum: female voices;
4. Remembering Rousseau: nostalgia and the responsibilities of the self;
5. Narratives of Southern African Farms;
6. The Invention of Mourning in Post-Apartheid Literature;
7. Locating Identity in Phaswane Mpe's Welcome To Our Hillbrow;
8. Travel and Transgression: Dan Jacobson's Southern African Journey;
9. Narrating a White Africa: autobiography, race and history.
10. What it Means to Stay: reterritorialising the Black Atlantic in Erna Brodber's writing of the local
11. Views and Visions: layered landscapes in West Indian migrant narratives;
12. Writing 'Home': mediating between 'the local' and 'the literary' in a selection of postcolonial women's texts;
13. Translating/'The' Kama Sutra;
14. Cultural Connections: Lagaan and its audience responses;
15. Writing the Nation's Destiny: Indian fiction in English before 1910;
16. Monological Discourse and the Creation of Villians: a staging of witnesses after 9/11.

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Intercultural communication.
Social change.
Cultural relations.

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