Texts and Contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Text in Its Context: An Introduction / Part I. General Regional -- 1. Fatal Choices? Morrell's and Scarr's Imperial Histories / 2. On Douglas Oliver's The Pacific Islands / 3. Oskar Spate's Trilogy / 4. Where theWaves Fall--or, Playing the Generalist Game / Part II. Methodologies -- 5. Voyagers and Navigators: The Sharp-Lewis Debate / 6. The Evolution of Marshall Sahlins / 7. Revisioning the Pacific: Bernard Smith in the South Seas / 8. More Celebrated than Read: TheWork of Norma McArthur / 9. Two Pacific Biographies: Hubert Murray and Father Damien / Part III. Activities -- 10. The Missionary Position: Messengers of Grace and TheWorks of Ta'unga / 11. Of Islands and Sandalwood: Shineberg, Maude, and the Hidden History of Trade / 12. Unsettling New Zealand History: The Revisionism of Sinclair and Ward / 13. Passage across the Sea: Indentured Labor to Fiji and from the Solomons / 14. Trumpet and Road: Two Classic Cargo Texts / Part IV. Island Groups -- 15. Living in Archives and Dreams: The Histories of Kuykendall and Daws / 16. On Hezel's The First Taint of Civilization / 17. On Greg Dening's Islands and Beaches / 18. Disentangling Samoan History: The Contributions of Gilson and Davidson / 19. The Last Unknown: Gavin Souter and the Historiography of New Guinea / Contributors -- Index

Handbook of the English Novel of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Handbooks of English and American Studies ;

Frontmatter -- Editors' Preface -- Contents -- 0. Introduction -- Part I. Systematic Questions -- 1. The English Novel as a Distinctly Modern Genre -- 2. The Novel in the Economy, 1900 to the Present -- 3. Genres: The Novel between Artistic Ambition and Popularity -- 4. Gender: Performing Politics in Prose? Performativity -- Masculinity -- Feminism -- Queer -- 5. The Burden of Representation: Reflections on Class, Ethnicity and the Twentieth-Century British Novel -- Part II. Close Readings -- 6. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) -- 7. James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) -- 8. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) -- 9. Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) -- 10. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) -- 11. Henry Green, Party Going (1939) -- 12. Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951-1958) -- 13. Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) -- 14. Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) -- 15. John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) -- 16. B.S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) -- 17. J.G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970-1978) -- 18. William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) -- 19. Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) -- 20. Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) -- 21. Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) -- 22. A.S. Byatt, Possession (1990) -- 23. Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995-2000) -- 24. Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) -- 25. David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) -- 26. China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) -- 27. Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009- ) -- 28. Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015) -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names -- List of Contributors.

The infinite longing for home : desire and the nation in selected writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam

Desire and the nation in selected writings of Ben Okri and K.S. Maniam

Cross/cultures,

Cross/cultures ;