ariel 34:2-3, 2003
 
Sukeshi Kamra

The War of Images: Mohammed Ali Jinnah and Editorial Cartoons in the Indian Nationalist Press, 1947

1

Charmaine Eddy

Marking the Body: The Material Dislocation of Gender in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple

37

Tobias A. Wachinger

Spicy Pleasures: Postcolonial India’s Literary Celebrities and the Politics of Consumption

71

Wang Ning

Translating Theory: Toward a (Re)Construction of Chinese Critical Discourse

95

 

Helga Ramsey-Kurz

Lives Without Letters: The Illiterate Other in An Imaginary Life, Remembering Babylon and The Conversations at Curlow Creek by David Malouf

115

 

Farhad B. Idris

The Traveler and His Hushed Companion: Problems of Narration in An Area of Darkness

135

 

Chitra Sankaran

“The Sounds of Silence”: An Analysis of Two Stories by Singaporean Women

151
Robbie B.H. Goh

Of New Covenants and Nationalisms: Christianity and The Poetry of Edwin Thumboo and Lee Tzu Pheng

171
Anthony Bradley

Hearts of Darkness: Conrad, Casement, and the Congo

197
E. Kim Stone

Good Housekeeping: Single Women and Global Feminism in J.M. Coetzee’s In the Heart of the Country

215
Nivedita Majumdar

Shadows of the Nation: Amitav Ghosh and the Critique of Nationalism

237

 

Poems
 
 

Mathews Varkey

A Tsunami’s Tryst with Fisherfolk
35
Cyril Dabydeen
Peace Accord
114
Cyril Dabydeen
The Ha’Penny Bridge, Dublin
134
Cyril Dabydeen
A Visit to India
271
Perspective
 
 
Pamela McCallum
Postcolonial Performances
127
Book Reviews
 
 
Ralph Pordzik

The Quest for Postcolonial Utopia: A Comparative Introduction to the Utopian Novel in the New English Literatures. (Brenda Garrett)

259
Robert Fraser

Lifting the Sentence: A Poetics of Postcolonial Fiction. (Gaik Cheng Khoo)

261
Robert J.C. Young

Postcolonialism: An Historical Introduction. (Stephen Morton)

264

Margaret Atwood

Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing. (Shannon MacRea)

268

 

Notes on Contributors
 
273