Across the Lines

Across the Lines

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
ANGLES OF ENTRY
Frank SCHULZE-ENGLER: Cross-Cultural Criticism and the Limits of Intertextuality
Bernd SCHULTE: Unrest in the 'Mediatope'. Symptoms of hypertrophy in intercultural studies and the New Literatures from the perspective of media theory
Augustine OKEREKE: The Performance and the Text. Parameters for understanding oral literary performance
TRANSCULTURALISMS
Cecile SANDTEN: India, America and Germany. Interhistorical and intertextual process in the poetry of Sujata Bhatt
Josef PESCH: Cultural Clashes? East meets West in Michael Ondaatje's novels
Jörg HELBIG: Get back to where you once belonged. Hanif Kureishi's use of the Beatles myth in The Buddha of Suburbia
Gundula WILKE: Rewriting the Bible. Thomas King's Green Grass, Running Water
THE AFRICAS
Pamela Z. DUBE: Traditional Oral Texts in New Contexts. New directions in South African performance poetry?
Susan ARNDT: Continuation and Writing Back. Igbo women writers and Ifo
Detlev GOHRBANDT: Fable Traditions in the Stories of Doris Lessing and Bessie Head
Gisela FEURLE: Welcome Robinson Crusoe, welcome!. Female revoicing in Bessie Head's Botswana Village Tales
Mark STEIN: The Writing of a Bastard Heir. Intertextuality in Dambudzo Marechera's early prose
Borislava SASIC: Nuruddin Farah's Sardines. The construction of a Somali novel on the intersection of transcultural intertextuality
THE OTHER ARCHIPELAGO
Martina GHOSH-SCHELLHORN: The White Creole Woman's Place in Society. Ideological implications of intertextual strategies in transcultural communication
Tobias DÖRING: Chains of Memory. English-Caribbean cross-currents in Marina Warner's Indigo and David Dabydeen's Turner
Albert-Reiner GLAAP: Speaking in Vastly Different Voices. Transcultural communication in Winsome Pinnock's plays
Gerhard FISCHER: Performing Multicultural and Post-Colonial Identities. Heiner Müller 'aboriginalized' by Mudrooroo (with a postscript on Mudrooroo's dilemmas)
Norbert SCHAFFELD: Clio's Other Scroll. The re-writing of history in contemporary Australian drama
Peter O. STUMMER: White Lies. Recent human-rights discourse and an Australian novel
Christopher BALME: Staging Intertextuality. Alternative models of New Zealand culture in Bruce Mason's Blood of the Lamb
Janet WILSON: Intertextual Strategies. Reinventing the myths of Aotearoa in contemporary New Zealand fiction
Yoni RYAN: Placing the Pacific on the Literary Map