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Abstract:
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CONTENTS
- Foreword 7
OPENING LECTURE
- Setting, Intertextuality and the Resurrection ofthe Postcolonial Author
zoe Wicomb 13
CANON AND FORMATION
- A Poet Out of His Dominion. The Theme of Exile in Malouf's An Imaginary Life
Matteo Baraldi 27
- The Writer as Ghost, Doppelganger, Gravedigger: Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead
Michela Bertilorenzi 33
- Between Nomos and Identity: Three Irish Antigones
Mariavita Cambria 39
- Giving. V oice. Rewriting Opera in J. M. Coetzee ' s Disgrace
Serena Guarracino 49
"Don 't ta1k to me about Matisse": Intertextual Duality in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family
Caterina Ricciardi 57
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS
- Amitav Gosh and the Counter-Narratives of Nation
Federica Zullo 71
- Reflections on the Ideology of Cartography: the Roots of Western Projections of Conquest and Postcolonial Writing Strategies to
Subvert Them
Paola Brusasco 77
- Nuruddin Farah and Postcolonial Writing
Claudia Buonaiuto 89
The Father and the Postcolonial Writer
Alessandra Contenti 97
WRITINGS FROM SOUTH AFRICA
- Collector of Treasures: (Re)Configurations of Femininity in Bessie Head's Narrative
Manuela Coppola 107
- "Scorching a new skin": Making Poetry and Refiguring Language in Work by Ingrid de Kok and Antjie Krog
Jane Wilkinson 117
- Nadine Gordimer and the Novel ofTransition: Post-Apartheid Writing
Tania Zulli 127
- The Language of Silence: Textual and Political Resistance in J. M. Coetzee's Work
Michela Canepari-Labib 137
- Coetzee and Costello: "What is an author'"
Paola Splendore 145
NATION AND NARRATION
- Refugees as Postcolonial Subjects: Nuruddin Farah's Yesterday, Tomorrow
Alessandra Di Maio 155
- Narrations of Identity in Zadie Smith's Fiction
Rossella Ciocca 161
- Conjuring the Conjugal: the Disruption ofSome Western Mores in Two Ghanaian Novels
Pietro Deandrea 169
- Trying to Grow: Adolescence in Postcolonial Literatures
Maria Grazia Furnari, Susanna Ghazvinizadeh, Marianna Ottaviani 183
WRITERS ON WRITING
- Reconsidering the Concept of 'Resistance' in Postcolonial Literatures
in English: the Case of Four Australian Writers
Ivana Foti 197
- Ben Okri and the Modern Storyteller
Mariaconcetta Costantini 207
- Walcott's Poetics and Criticism: What the Twilight Says
Fausto Ciompi 217
- Tilting the Field. 'The Well Springs' and the 'Trials ofthe Imagination' in
Wilson Harris's Critical Writing
Elsa Linguanti 227
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