A Sense of Exile

A SENSE OF EXILE

Essays in the Literature of the Asia Pacific Region

Edited by Bruce Bennett and Susan Miller

'These essays offer a valuable insight into the cultural alienation which, in the late 20th century, affects many of us - whether as recent immigrants, as provincials transplanted in the metropolis or, increasingly, as exiles of the mind.' Robert Drew 'We are all exiles, who will not rest, but will dream, and travel, seeking an alternative reality, a better future.' Ee Tiang Hong

ISBN 0 86422 072 3
$12.95



CONTENTS:

Acknowledgements

Introduction

'The Exile of the Mind' by Meernakshi Mukherjee

'Canonical and Colonial Texts: English Appropriations and Misappropriations' by John Hay

'The Marcos Years and After: A Personal Essay' by F. Sionil Jose

'The Only Way Out: The Sense of Exile in Poetry' by Kirpal Singh

'Exile to Native in Singapore Poetries' by Edwin Thumboo

'Gifts of Exile' by C. D. Narasimhaiah

'Passports to Paradise' by Bruce Bennett

'Nevil Shute - Exile by Choice' by Jack Bennet

'Exiles in Eden: The Popular Colonial Romance' by Paul Sharrad

'Nowt More Outcastin: Utopian Myths in Louis Nowra's The Golden Age' by Veronica Kelly

'Exiles in Their Own Country: Fringedwellers and The Fringedwellers' by Veronica Brady

'Twice Removed: Aboriginal and Immigrant Writing in Australia' by Kateryna Olijnyk Arthur

'Chinese Writers and the War-Resistance Lierature of Malaya and Singapore, 1937-1942' by Wong Yoon Wah

'Alienation and the Pacific War: The Fiction of Lim Thean Soo and Chin Kee Onn' by Leong Liew Geok

'The Novels of F. Sionil Jose: Protagonists in Spiritual Exile' by Dudley de Suza

'The Malaysian Novelist: Detachment or Spiritual Trancendence' by K. S. Maniam

'Linguistic Boundaries: K.S. Maniam's The Return' by Anne Brewster

'Exiles of the Mind - The Fictions of Janet Frame' by Vincent O'Sullivan

'R. Parthasarathy: The Language of Deracination' by Sudesh Mishra

'Biographical Writing: Personal and Public' by Yasmine Gooneratne

'Translating Malay Poetry: Kemala' by Harry Aveling

'Playing Dangerously With Words: Translating the Poetry of Sutardji Calzoum Bachri' by Chin Woon Ping