Table of Contents
The Invention of Legacy: A Tribute to Hena Maes–Jelinek
JE A N N EDE L B A E R E 1
Because It Was She
JE A N N EDE L B A E R E 3
The Invention of Legacy: Opening Ceremony
GE O F F R E Y V. DA V I S 13
Text Read at the Launch of
The Labyrinth of Universality
WI LSO N HA R R I S 17
Cumberland Lodge: Honouring Hena in the Right Setting
AL A S T A I RNI V E N 19
A Kaddish for Hena
PE T E RH. MA R S D E N 25
The Photo
AL EC I AMCKE N Z I E 33
The Wind Under My Lips
ST E P HA N O S ST E P H A N I D E S 35
The Empathy of Genius: Hena Maes–Jelinek and Wilson Harris
LO U I SJA M E S 43
Place and Time: The Two Anchors
The Legacy of the Imagination: Reading Wilson Harris after Hena Maes–Jelinek
JE A N–PI E R R E DU R I X 67
Intersections on the ‘Map of Art’: Metaphor in Ben Okri’s
Dangerous Love and Wilson Harris’s The Mask of the Beggar
DA R I A TU NC A 81 A Tribute to Hena LA W R EN C E SC O T T 97 On a Voyage to Demerara, 1859 LA W R EN C E SC O T T 98 The Shylock In Me KA R E N KI N G–AR I B I S A L A 113
Revisiting The European Tribe
CA R Y L PH I L L I P S 121
How Anancy Feeds His Family (and Himself)
FR E D D’AG U I A R 131
Telling Your Story: Memory and
Trauma in Leone Ross’s Orange Laughter
PE TR ATO U R N A Y–THE O D O T O U 141
On the ‘Erasure of Specificities’ in Studies of the African Diaspora
CHR I S T I N ELE V E C Q 153
Swiss-Caribbean Authors: A Legacy of Swiss Involvement in the Colonial System
KL A U S ST U C K E R T 163
On the Kamau Trail: Tracking Poems from Page to Stage
CHR I S T I N EPA G N O U L L E 175
Race, Literacy, and Postcoloniality in Jamaica Kincaid’s Mr. Potter
CA R I N E MA R D O R O S SI A N 187
Caribbean Writers and the Jewish Diaspora: A Shared Experience of Otherness
Remarkable Developments in the Australian Short Story: John Murray and Nam Le
PE T E RO. ST U M M ER 219
Mourning and Metafiction in Peter Carey’s Chemistry of Tears
MA R C DE L R E Z 233
Prologue to an Essay
MA R I EHE R B I L L O N 245
Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy-Tale?
MA R I EHE R B I L L O N 247
Metonyms of Mood and Condition: The Semiosis of
Habitation in Selected Australian Fiction Since Patrick White
GO R DO N CO L L I E R 255
(Not) Saying Sorry: Australian Responses to the Howard Government’s Refusal to Apologize to the Stolen Generations
JA N E TWI L S O N 295
Cannibalism and ‘Unspeakable Rites’: Patrick White’s
A Fringe of Leaves and Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
CY N T H I A V A N D E NDR I E SE N 313
The Holocaust as Private and Public Crisis: Janice Kulyk Keefer’s Poetic Version of Etty Hillesum’s Diaries and Letters
BR I T T A OL I N D E R 327
“The Territory of My Imagination”:
Rediscovering Dan Jacobson’s South Africa
GE O F F R E Y V. DA V I S 347
The Legacy of Atlantic Crossings: Eslanda Goode Robeson’s African Journey (1945)
AN N A L I S AOB O E 377
Letters to the End of Grief
DO M I N I Q U EHE C Q 389
Notes on Contributors and Editors 403
