A Shaping of Connections : Commonwealth Literature Studies, Then and Now : Essays in Honour of A.N. Jeffares

Contents: The Hussites: a pre-history of ACLALS 1945-64 / Robert T. Robertson -- Commonwealth studies in the United States ; A.L. McLeod -- Something a colonial can manage / G.D. Killam -- How with the help of Derry Jeffares I (an American) became a Commonwealth literature specialist / Bruce King -- Commonwealth literature: the state of affairs in Germany / Gerhard Stilz -- Why Aarhus? / Anna Rutherford -- The trodden path & the way ahead / Doireann Macdermott -- Nothing by chance: a personal tribute / Alastair Niven -- New literatures on the curriculum / Louis James -- Commonwealth literature at Hull / Arthus Pollard -- The Commonwealth Centre at Mysore University / H.H. Anniah Gowda -- The Commonwealthe literature period: a note towards the history of Indian English literature / G.N. Devi -- Commonwealth/New literatures in a small corner of Asia / Edwin Thumboo -- Beyond the coups: the writer and Fiji / Satendra Nandan -- Doing good by stealth / Ken Goodwin -- Growing up in Jamaica / John J. Figueroa -- New approaches to the new literatures in English: are we in danger of incorporating disparity? / Diana Brydon -- Reading for resistance in the post-colonial literatures / Stephen Slemon -- ’Lie back and think of England’: post-colonial literature and the academy / Helen Tiffin -- Comedy and modern allegory: a personal view / Wilson Harris -- Early black writing in Britain / Paul Edwards -- Footprints on the soul / Colin Nicholson -- A shaping of connections / W.H. New -- Okot’s last blast: an attempt at curricular reform in Uganda after Idi Amin / Bernth Lindfors -- Cultural kinetics in an ironic mode: Achebe’s A man of the people / Russell McDougall -- Political commitment and poetic utterance: post-independence poetry from Singapore and Malaysia / Kirpal Singh -- Commonwealth literature: problems of response / C.D. Narasimhaiah -- Truth and the semblance of truth in Sara Banderji’s The wedding of Jayanthi Mandel / Iréne Simon -- Memory as survival in the global village: Janet Frame’s Carpathians / Jeanne Delbaere -- ’It was so, it was not so’ / Jean-Pierre Durix -- The muse’s progress: ’infinite rehearsal’ in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe / Hena Maes-Jelenek -- An elaborate dead end? A feminist reading of Coetzee’e Foe / Kirsten Holst Petersen.