EBONY, IVORY & TEA.

BIALAS, Zbigniew & Krzysztof Kowalczyk-Twarowski. J. M. Coetzee, Ampie Coetzee, Erhard Reckwitz, Lucia Vennarini, Mala Pandurang (Contributors).

ISBN 10: 8322613180 / ISBN 13: 9788322613184

Published by Wydawnictwo Uniwersrytetu Slaskiego., Katowice., 2004

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8vo. pp 242. Original publisher's illustrated boards, lettered brown on spine and front cover. pp 13-14 'The essential scheme here, hugely redolent of Robinson Crusoe's mercantile success, as well as the 'solemnity' referred to above point to the rationale for a symposium we convened in Krak w, Poland, 28 September - 2 October 200 (we being Colonial and Postcolonial Studies Centre, University of Silesia, Poland and Southern African Studies Centre, University of Essen, Germany). Inquiring into the literary intricacies of colonial trade, dismantling the commodification processes inherent in the discourse of imperial conquest, and reflecting how they survive in the culture of an overtly post-colonial ear - these were the chief objectives of 'Ebony, Ivory and Tea'. Both the papers delivered and the discussions that followed revealed a number of consistent characteristics'. Fine in wrap around band. Fine. First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: EBONY, IVORY & TEA.
• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersrytetu Slaskiego., Katowice.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8322613180
• ISBN 13: 9788322613184
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

First Impression of 400 copies. Contents:

J.M. Coetzee: The Novel in Africa

Shankar Raman: Money, Gender and Colonialism in John Donne's Elegies

Tadeusz Rachwal: The Pumpkins of Jamaica: On Labour, Cultivation and Culture

Helen Tiffin: "White Men Read Books; We Hunt for Heads Instead": Head-Trading in Borneo

Johan van Wyk: "A Custom He Did Not Sanction": Texts by Ivory Traders, Isaacs and Fynn, in the Shaka Period

Ampie Coetzee: "... by Permission of the Honourable Governor Only to Shoot Elephants" (Jacobus Coetzee, July 1760)

Gerhard Stilz: Buds or Leaves? The Moral and Aesthetic Dialectics of South Asian Tea Plantations in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing

Elmar Lehmann: "Dost Sometimes Counsel Take - and Sometimes Tea"

Erhard Reckwitz: Tea and the Two Colonial Triangles: Timothy Mo's 'An Insular Possession'

Michael Green: Preposterous Silence: Metaphor and Materiality in Daphne Rooke's 'Ratoons'

Lucia Vennarini: "Sugar in Your Tea?": Apocalyptic Visions of the Future on a Natal Sugar Farm: John Conyngham's 'The Arrowing of the Cane'

Mala Pandurang: The East African Asian 'Dukawallah' and Narratives of Self-Discovery

Noel Elizabeth Currie: "Trading in Fiction"; Or, Wilderness and the Construction of Canada: The Case of John Richardson's 'Wacousta'

Diana Brydon: Postcolonial Gothic: Ghosts, Iron and Salt in Dionne Brand's 'At the Full and Change of the Moon'

Barbara Godard: Deterritorializing Strategies: Nourbese Philip as Caucasianist Ethnographer