Contributions by members of English 27, Brown University, Autumn 1997

Corissa Binns '00

• Morality and Mirror Imagery in Salman Rushdie's Shame
• The Idea of Education and Postcolonial Discourse
• Education and in Aké and A Forest of Flowers
• Education and The Slave Girl
• The Myth of Women and the Reality of Men's Actions in Hove and Achebe
• Feminizing Narrative and Landscape: Images of Women in Three Postcolonial Texts
• The Female Landscape
• Imagery of Locked Women
• The Postcolonial Mother Country
• "An Empty Vessel"
• The Shame of Motherhood
• The Joys of Motherhood

Emile Cassou '00

• Traditional Greed or Imported Capitalism in A Forest of Flowers: Reading Questions
• The Post-colonial Dialectic of Change
• Change in Emecheta's The Slave Girl
• Change in Vera's Nehanda

Jennifer B. Ellingson '00

• Women in Emecheta, Hove, and Vera: Passivity and Assertion
• Style in Emecheta, Hove, and Vera
• Postcolonial as a Literary Term -- Reclaiming Voice or Stifling
• The Theme of Language in Recent African Novels
• What or who is Marita's son anyway? (reading question)
• Opposing Roles -- Place, Invasion, and Responsibility: Introduction
• Teachers and Students in Waterland
• Social Structures and Role Questioning Roles in The Remains of the Day and In Custody
• The Voodoo of Power in Oscar and Lucinda, Once Were Warriors, and Shame

Gregory B. Gipson '00

• Orality and Writing, Individual and Community: Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
• Style, Structure, and Story in Hove and Achebe
• Postcolonialism and the Modernist Nightmare
• Mutable Semantics: Three Texts and the Term Postcolonial
• The Term Postcolonial and Emecheta's The Slave Girl
• The Term Postcolonial and Vera's Nehanda
• Postcoloniality in Text and Film
• Postcoloniality in Text and Film: Once Were Warriors
• The Remains of the Day and Postimperialism
• The Remains of the Day Translated into Film

Andrew J. Greenwald '99

• Postcolonialism as Hope
• Postcolonial Feminism in Nehanda
• Postcolonial Feminism in Anthills of the Savannah

Margaret W. Hander '00

• Migration, Character, and Event in Salman Rushdie's Shame (with A. Holla)
• Symbolic Objects in The Slave Girl and Bones
• The Shona Significance of Bones
• Cowries for Ojebeta and for the Yoruba
• Bones and Images from the Natural World
• The Term Postcolonial applied to Anthills of the Savannah and A Forest of Flowers
• A Forest of Flowers and Postcolonial Gender Questions
• Anthills of the Savannah and Postcolonial Gender Questions
• The Postcolonial World Views America: Introduction
• Encounters with Americans (I): The Remains of the Day
• Encounters with Americans (II): Anthills of the Savannah
• Confronting America's Inanimate Presence (I): Aké: the Years of Childhood
• Confronting America's Inanimate Presence (II): A Forest of Flowers
• Confronting America's Inanimate Presence (III): Shame
• Confronting America's Inanimate Presence (IV):Once Were Warriors
• With a First-hand Knowledge of the Country: Meatless Days
• The Postcolonial World Views America: Conclusion

Alaka Holla '01

• Post-colonial Residue (Defining the Term and the Problem of Language)
• Women as story-tellers in Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
• Migration, Character, and Event in Salman Rushdie's Shame (with M. W. Hander)
  • Migration: the Feat of the Rootless
  • Displacement in Shame
  • Displacement in Meatless Days

Zandra I. Kambysellis '01

• Language is Power; Language is Identity: The Unconscious Influence of Post-colonialism on Language in Africa: Post-colonialism: The Unconscious Changing of a Culturer
• Language: Spoken or Written?
• Only the Shadows of Freedom and Power
• The Deceptively Dubious Quality of Metaphor

Giridhar G. Mallya '99

• The Evolving Postcolonial: Conflict as a Mechanism of Change

Adam M. Stolorow '98

• Outsider characters in Shame and Waterland
• Interviewing My Own Authoritative Voice: Definition, Usefulness, and Limitations of the Term Postcolonial

Irene Tung '00

• Outsider characters in Shame and Waterland
• Language and Words in Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
• Women in Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
• Language and Objectification in The Remains of the Day
• Narrative Form and English Dialect in Once Were Warriors
• The Maori and the African American in Once Were Warriors
• The Intersection of History, Location, Discourse and Womanhood in Meatless Days

David Washburn '98.5

• The Master and the Mistress: Ojebeta and Marita Coping with the Effects of Colonialism on Gender Roles
• Reversing Before and After in Shame
• Post-Colonialism: Trying to Regain Ethnic Individuality

Molly Yancovitz '98

• Food in Postcolonial Literature: Anthills of the Savannah and Bones
• Food in Anthills of the Savannah
• Food in Bones
• Gender and Shame
• Defying Containment, Deskinning Woman
• Water and Border-Crossing in Suleri: Deconstructing the Idea of Woman
• Reading Anita Desai

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