Special issue on “New Literatures in English”
Guest editors: Lourdes López Ropero and Isabel Díaz Sánchez

Summary

In memoriam : Brian Hughes — Alcaraz Varó, Enrique

Preface — López Ropero, María Lourdes; Díaz Sánchez, Isabel

Representations of black omen in Grace Nichol's poetry : from otherness to empowerment — Bringas López, Ana

Men don't have nothing like virginity : migration, refraction, and black masculine performance in Austin Clarke's The Question — Carmona Rodríguez, Pedro M.

Hiromi Goto's Chorus of Mushrooms : cultural difference, visibility and the Canadian tradition — Darias Beautell, Eva

The thematic tradition in black British literature and its poetic representation — Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina

Imag(in)ing the Nation through Maori eyes/I's — Fresno Calleja, Paloma

Aetiological values in Achebe's stories for children — García Ramírez, Paula

The military in Nigeria's postcolonial literature : an overview — Gbemisola, Adeoti

Welsh writting and postcoloniality : the strategic use of the Blodeuwedd myth in Emyr Humphreys's novels — Green, Diane

Merlinda Bobis's use of magic realism as reflected in "White Turtle" : moving across cultures, redefining the multicultural and dialogic self — Herrero Granado, María Dolores

Reading and teaching Barbara Kingsolver's Poisonwood Bible as postcolonial — Jussawalla, Feroza

A parable of the African condition: the interface of postmodernism and postcolonialism in Biyi Bandele-Thomas's fiction — Kehinde, Ayo

A new wor(l)d order : language in the fiction of the new Caribbean diaspora — Ledent, Bénédicte

Reflections on some syntactical processes and their communicative implications in two short stories written by Julia Álvarez : My English and A Genetics of Justice — Martínez Lirola, María

Diaspora: concept, context, and its application in the study of new literatures — López Ropero, María Lourdes

The fiction of 'Subaltern Pasts': Shashi Deshpande and Sunetra Gupta — Majumdar, Saikat

From the monologic eye to healing polyphonies : dialogic re/vision in native American narratives — Martínez Falquina, Silvia

Literary Moonlighting : the cultural spaces of Shashi Tharoor — Skinner, John

Narratives of displacement : V.S. Naipaul's Indians in exile — Varela Zapata, Jesús

To voice or not to voice the Tasmanian Aborigines : novels by Matthew Kneale and Richard Flanagan — Wallhead Salway, Celia Margaret

The hybrid language and society (Afrikaans-English) of the South African postcolonial writing of Pauline Smith (1882-1959) in Spanish translation : "Anna's marriage / La boda de Ana" (1925) — Zarandona Fernández, Juan Miguel

An interview with Ama Ata Aidoo : 'I learnt my first feminist lessons in Africa' — Frías Rudolphi, María

Border studies : an annotated list of cultural and academic web sources — Dueñas Vinuesa, María


Reviews

Jussawalla, Feroza (2003): Chiffon Saris. Toronto: TSAR Publications, 92 pages. — Caporale Bizzini, Silvia

Fernández Álvarez; M. Pilar and Antón Teodoro Manrique (2002): Antología de la literatura nórdica antigua. Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad — Belda-Medina, Jose Ramon

Schwarlz, Anja (2001). The (im)possibilities of machine translation. Peter Lang. Frankfurt am Main. 323 pages. — Borrás Giner, Silvia

Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (2003): Historical Sociolinguistics: Language Change in Tudor and Stuart England. Great Britain: Pearson Education, 260 pages. — Ponce Serrano, Sara