Acknowledgements Permissions Norbert PLATZ et al.: In Memoriam Lauris Edmond (1924–2000): A Tribute LITERATURE OF THE SETTLER COLONIES Thomas BRÜCKNER: An Anatomy of Violence: A Conversation with Mike Nicol Mike NICOL: from The Ibis Tapestry John DOUTHWAITE: Coetzee’s Disgrace: A Linguistic Analysis of the Opening Chapter Dorothy DRIVER: Unruly Subjects in Southern African Writing John GAMGEE: The White Tribe: The Afrikaner in the Novels of J.M. Coetzee Richard SAMIN: Wholeness or Fragmentation? The New Challenges of South African Literary Studies Brian WORSFOLD: Post-Apartheid Transculturalism in Sipho Sepamla’s Rainbow Journey and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace André VIOLA: Translating Oneself Into the New South Africa: Fiction of the 1990s Clara JOSEPH: The S(p)ecular ‘Convert’: A Response to Gauri Viswanathan’s Outside the Fold Bernard WILSON: Submerging Pasts: Lee Kok Liang’s London Does Not Belong To Me Anne H. RØNNING: Bicultural Identities in Discourse: The Case of Yvonne du Fresne Bernd HERZOGENRATH: The (Un)Fortunate Traveller and the Text: Bill Manhire and The Brain of Katherine Mansfield Jaroslav KUŠNÍR: Multiculturalism in Helen Darville’s The Hand That Signed The Paper? Chantal KWAST–GREFF: Mad ‘Mad’ Women: Anger, Madness, and Suffering in Recent White Australian Fiction Sigrun MEINIG: Myopic Visions: Rodney Hall’s The Second Bridegroom Katherine GALLAGHER: Jet Lag. My Mother’s Garden. Reckoning Peter GOLDSWORTHY: Evil Eye. Bed Syd HARREX: What do you see when you watch that hillside above the lake? A Lover’s Anguish in King William St. No Title. Aroma Therapy. Screen Images ABORIGINAL LITERATURE David CALLAHAN: Narrative and Moral Intelligence in Gordon Henry Jr’s The Light People Nicole SCHRÖDER: Transcultural Negotiations of the Self: The Poetry of Wendy Rose and Joy Harjo Judith DELL PANNY: Inside the Spiral: Māori Writing in English MULTICULTURALISM AND ETHNICITY Marc COLAVINCENZO: “Fables of the Reconstruction of the Fables”: Multiculturalism, Postmodernism, and the Possibilities of Myth in Hiromi Goto’s Chorus of Mushrooms Robert FRASER: Postcolonial Cities: Michael Ondaatje’s Toronto and Yvonne Vera’s Bulawayo Susanne HILF: “Hybridize or Disappear”: Exploring the Hyphen in Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill D.C.R.A. GOONETILLEKE: Disillusionment With More Than India: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Heat and Dust Obododimma OHA: Living on the Hyphen: Ayi Kwei Armah and the Paradox of the African-American Quest for a New Future and Identity in Postcolonial Africa M.Z. MALABA : Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in Alan Paton’s Fiction Jochen PETZOLD: Ridiculing Rainbow Rhetoric: Christopher Hope’s Me, the Moon and Elvis Presley Anne FUCHS: The Birth-Pangs of Empowerment: Crime and the City of Johannesburg Malcolm PURKEY: Traps Seductive, Destructive and Productive: Theatre and the New South Africa THE BLACK EXPERIENCE IN BRITAIN Eleonora CHIAVETTA: In the Eyes of the Outsider: Buchi Emecheta’s Been-To Novels Michael MEYER: The Other Women’s Guide to English Cultures: Tsitsi Dangarembga and Buchi Emecheta Michael HENSEN and Mike PETRY: “Searching for a Sense of Self”: Postmodernist Theories of Identity and the Novels of Salman Rushdie Stéphanie RAVILLON: An Introduction to Salman Rushdie’s Hybrid Aesthetic: The Satanic Verses Cecile SANDTEN: East is West: Hanif Kureishi’s Urban Hybrids and Atima Srivastava’s Metropolitan Yuppies Christine VOGT–WILLIAM: Rescue Me? No, Thanks! A Wicked Old Woman and Anita and Me Notes on Contributors