Acknowledgements Introduction: A Memory Trip. Partly in Tandem, Partly Quadrilogical Conspectus and Comparison Erhard Reckwitz: Literature as a Rule-Breaking Activity Sven Strasen and Peter Wenzel: Construction of Identities, Polar Opposites, and Cultural Models: The Binary Approach to Cultural Interaction Gerhard Stilz: What Happens in the ‘Contact Zone’? Ganesh Devy: Endangered Languages and Dispossessed Communities Norbert H. Platz: Ecocriticism, Environmental Ethics, and a New Ecological Culture Unsettled Settlers and Others Kristjana Gunnars: Extreme Liminality: The Linked Stories of Édouard, Juliette, and Lena in Mavis Gallant’s Overhead in a Balloon Peter O. Stummer: Move the Earth with One’s Dramatic Shovel? Some Observations on Recent Plays in Canada and Beyond Terry Goldie: Fanciful Indigeneity Martin Kuester: Between European Past and Canadian Present: Lesbian Mennonite Writing and Collective Memory David Callahan: Entropy and the Totally Buried Home in Jane Urquhart’s A Map of Glass Devindra Kohli: “Under a pillar of rain/thinking goodbye”: Remembering Kamala Das Béatrice Bijon: ‘Bubbles into the Bottle’ of Postcolonialism: Ritornellos and Screen-Memories in Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things Russell McDougall: The Materialization and Transformation of Xavier Herbert: A Body of Work Committed to Australia Dolores Herrero: The Phantom and Transgenerational Trauma in Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well Helga Ramsey–Kurz: Due Preparations for Paradise: or, The Plague Now According to Hany Abu-Assad and Janette Turner Hospital Marc Delrez: “Grace of the Crocodiles”: Towards Deterritorialization of Culture in Robert Drewe’s Grace Jaroslav Kušnír: Lives of Artists, Identities of Countries: Dependence, Displacement, Identity, and Australia in Peter Carey’s Theft Marc Maufort: Positioning Alterity: Multi-Ethnic Identities in Contemporary New Zealand Drama Peter H. Marsden: Ut pictura poiesis: Paintings and Painters in the Poetry of Peter Bland Home Territory Bénédicte Ledent: A Play of Significance: Roy Williams’s Days of Significance and the Question of Labels Carla Sassi: Postcolonializing Glasgow’s Amnesia: Alasdair Gray’s Lanark as a Palimpsest of Scottish Imperial History Gavin Hopps: A Foreigner at Home: Morrissey and the Art of Embarrassment First Love David Midgley: Zweig’s Englishmen Deborah Vietor–Engländer: “Mr Davis’s Monument, or Dear Mr Davis, what shall I do?” Ian Wallace: The Enigma of Hitler: Counterfactual Perspectives What It’s All About Dennis Haskell: A Tale of Two Cities Geoff Goodfellow: Onto the Spin Cycle Michael Sharkey: The Day Collector: An Ode. My Classic Bent: Scene From a Life Gordon Collier: Canada Quartet (for Geoff). Historia canis. In motionless air Anne Brewster: Travelogue Andrew Taylor: Karri forest. Maxi, goodbye Pia Thielmann: The Way to Agra; or Nature’s Pain Everywhere Kirpal Singh: from this side of memory Notes on Contributors

Gordon Collier has published books on translation and on Patrick White, and is the editor or co-editor of numerous critical anthologies. He is co-general editor of the book-series Cross/Cultures and of the journal Matatu. Marc Delrez teaches anglophone and comparative literature at the University of Liège. He is the author of a book on Janet Frame and co-editor (with Bénédicte Ledent) of The Contact and the Culmination (1997), a collection of essays on postcolonial literature. Anne Fuchs taught comparative literature and theatre studies at the University of Nice. She is the co-editor (with Geoff Davis) of two collections of essays on South African and Black British theatre. Bénédicte Ledent teaches English language and Caribbean literature at the University of Liège. She is the author, editor, and co-editor of books on Caryl Phillips and on Caribbean literature. Contributors: Béatrice Bijon, Anne Brewster, David Callahan, Gordon Collier, Marc Delrez, Ganesh Devy, Terry Goldie, Geoff Goodfellow, Kristjana Gunnars, Dennis Haskell, Dolores Herrero, Gavin Hopps, Devindra Kohli, Martin Kuester, Jaroslav Kušnír, Bénédicte Ledent, Russell McDougall, Peter H. Marsden, Marc Maufort, David Midgley, Norbert H. Platz, Helga Ramsey–Kurz, Erhard Reckwitz, Carla Sassi, Michael Sharkey, Kirpal Singh, Gerhard Stilz, Sven Strasen, Peter O. Stummer, Andrew Taylor, Pia Thielmann, Deborah Vietor–Engländer, Ian Wallace, and Peter Wenzel