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Abani, Chris Graceland 69, 202, 203, 204,207 n28

Able-bodiedness 9, 101, 112Aboriginal peoples 84, 85, 173, 174,

Aboriginal women 174

Académie Française 62Achebe, Chinua 2, 4, 6, 10, 11, 35, 69, 131

n27, 155, 212, 220, 236, 240, JosephConrad 2, 11, 63, 79 n8, 155, Arrow ofGod 155, 236, 240, No Longer at Ease24, 32, 122, 234, 235, 240, 243, 246 n9,Things Fall Apart 2, 4, 6, 16, 32, 64, 77,119, 155, 221, 223, 229 n76, 229 n77,239, 240, 241, 246 n19, “The Novelistas Teacher” 13 n10, 79 n11, “TheAfrican Writer and the EnglishLanguage” 227 n68, Things Fall Apartand Harold Bloom 233

Aciman, André Harvard Square 135, 136,144, 150 n13, 151 n43

Adaptation 5, 25, of Greek tragedy 231,South African adaptations of Greektragedies 231

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi 1, Americanah126, 137, 142, 150 n27, 151 n37, 151n38, 151 n39, Half of a Yellow Sun 11,69, 70, 78

Adiga, Aravind 8, The White Tiger 67, 201,207 n26

Adventure 2, 3, 18, 25, 30, 47, 169, 171, 173Aeschylus Oresteia 242

Affectivity 19, 36, 43, 54, 56, 153, 160, 163Afghanistan 36, 45, 54, 145Africa 25, 35, 63, 81, 99, 100, 105, 123, 155,

170, 196, homosexuality 123, oraltradition 75, pollution 92,

representations of 155, 191, urbanism190, West Africa 28, 29, 30, 75

African slaves 21, 196African American 29, 143, 147, 172,

crime fiction 169, 171, 176, 182, 184African writers 5, 60, 123, 245, women

writers 126, African Writers Series 120Afrikaans 175, 181, 182, tradition 181

Agamben, Giorgio 162, 165 n23Ahmad, Aijaz (on Frederic Jameson) 13 n18,

228 n70Ahmed, Siraj 22, 33 16nAidoo, Ama Ata Our Sister Killjoy 124Aina, Olabisi 131 n29Alaska 177

Aldrich, Robert 122, 130 n24, 131 n28Aleut writers 177Algeria 7, 178, 180, 210Algerian war of Independence 67, 209, 210Ali, Monica Brick Lane 191, 206 n11Allegory 20, Allegorical 20Allende, Isabel House of Spirit 239, 244Alonso, Carlos 39, 58 n8Amadiume, Ifi 131 n27America 19, 38, 173, colonies 19, creole 17,

Asian diasporas 123, identity 145,imperialism 169, 179, literature 116,space 136

American Revolution 19, 29, pre-AmericanRevolution 23

Americans 26, Anglo-American 26,Amerindian 85, early American novels26, American writers 19, 127, SouthernAmerican writers 170

Americas 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 26, 29, novels of22, British North America 210, SouthAmerica 156, South American writers184

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Anagnorisis 235Anand, Mulk Raj 3Ancient civilization 21

Anderson, Benedict 19, 21, 24, 36, 215,Imagined Communities 18, 21, 33 n8, 33n13, 220, “Print capitalism” 18, 36, TheSpectre of Comparison 150 n2

Andrade, Susan Z. 128, 128 n1Anglophone 21, 32, 168, Anglophone fiction

22, 44Angola 7Animals 27, 85, 127Anthropocentrism 83

Anti-Semitism 52

Anticolonial 23, 35, 83, 88, 119, 120,anticolonial conservationism 88,anticolonial fiction 118, anticolonial hero119, anticolonial masculinity 122,anticolonial nationalism 144, 208,anticolonial novel 23, 26, 29, 32, 122,Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an AfricanFarm 118, anticolonial politics 87

Anticolonialism 22Antiguan writers 66, 159Antiquarian novels 21Antiracism 22Antirealism 117

Antoni, Robert Carnival 127Appadurai, Arjun 4, 13 n8, 228 n73Appiah, Anthony Kwame 8, 13 n17Arab world 52, 60, Arabian Nights 6, 71,

Arabic 30, 45, 60, 65, 123, Arabiccolonization of Africa 123

Arendt, Hannah 42, The Human Condition51, 58 n26

Aristotle Poetics 231, anagnorisis,Aristotelian tragedy 234

Arjouni, Jakob Mehr Bier 180Armah, Ayi Kwei The Beautyful Ones Are

Not Yet Born 67, 193, 194, 195, 203,Two Thousand Seasons 123

Armitage, David 227 n60Ashcroft, Bill 4, 13 n11, 79 n9, 208, 225 n4,

226 n26Asia 35, 168, (Central) 44, 45, (East) 133,

Asian crime fiction writers 183, Asianwomen writers 126, South Asian writers67, South Asian writers 116

Asturias, Miguel Angel 72Athenian theatre (tragedy) 230Attridge, Derek 61, 77, 78, 80 n36, J.

M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron 79 n2Attwell, David (J.M. Coetzee) 216, 227 n53

Atwood, Margaret Handmaid’s Tale 91, 92,93, 95, 97 n36, MaddAddam 91, Oryxand Crake 91, The Year of the Flood 91,“speculative fiction” 90, 91

Auden, W. H. 235, “Musée des Beaux Arts”in Chinua Achebe’s No Longer at Ease234

Augé, Marc 135, 150 n7, “supermodernity”135, 150 n6

Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis 60, 222Austen, Jane 21, 213, Mansfield Park 211,

212, Mansfield Park and Edward Said211, realism 62, 63

Australia 17, 64, 67, 84, 93, 95, 158, 173,Australasia 81, Australian criminality169, indigenous Australian 173, 184,Australian national identity 111, 115n35, Australian nationalism 85, 159,163, Australian politics 157, Australianwriters 182

Austrian crime fiction 181

Autobiography 62, 159, sublime 160Awasthi, Suresh 233

Bachelard 209

Baker, Houston A. Jr. 131 n29Baker, Nikki In the Game 172Bakhtin 40, 41, 58 n16, 59 n29,

“chronotope” 54

Ball, John In the Heat of the Night 171Ballantyre, G. M. 2Baltic states 45Balzac, Honoré 62, 134Bancroft, Edward The History of Charles

Wentworth 19

Banerjee, Sarnath 206 n8Bangladesh 191, Bangladesh war 74Banville, John 178

Barbados 24Barcelona 179

Barker, Clare 114 n3, 115 n26Basu, Samit 206 Local Monsters 206 n8Bateman, Colin Cycle of Violence (Cross Ma

Heart) 178Battiste, Marie 228 n74Baxt, George A Queer Kind of Death 171

Bearpaw, Molly Ravenmocker 177Beckett, SamuelWaiting for Godot 232, in De

Lillo’s Mao II 43, Athol Fugard’s TheIsland 232

Behn, Aphra Oroonoko 15, 19Belenguer, Susan Bayó 186 n37Belgium 67

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Benjamin, Walter 215, Arcades 188Berlin Wall 38Berman, Carolyn Vellenga 33 n7Bernard, Robert Death and the Chaste

Apprentice 173Berners-Lee, Tim (Sir) 35Bestiality 127

Beti, Mongo 6Bettinger, Elfi 183, 187 n56Beuke Lauren Zoo City 127

Bewes, Timothy (on Georg Lukács)58 n15

Bhabha, Homi 4, 154, 213, 215, 220, 226n31, 226 n32, 226 n33, 238, hybridity220, “colonial nonsense” 153, 155, “OfMimicry andMan” 238, 246 n15, “SignsTaken for Wonders” 238, “Third Space”226 n39, 229 n78, The Location ofCulture 164 n7, V. S. Naipaul’s TheMimic Men 213

Bhagat, Chetan One Night @ the Call Centre201, 202

Bhattacharyya, Subhabrata 130 n22Biafra 69, 70Biggers, Earl Derr 183Bildungsroman 20, 47, 66, 93, 119, 124, 160,

anti-bildung 66, colonial Bildungsroman25, human rights 69

“Biocolonialism” 82

Biography 20, 25Birch, Tony 174

Birkle, Carmen 187 n52Black satire 36Black women 120, 122, 172Bland, Eleanor Taylor Dead Time 172Blood 30

Bloom, Harold (on Chinua Achebe’s ThingsFall Apart) 233, 246 n7

Body 99, 100, Michael Davidson 115 n24,140, 146, 147, 148, 163

Boehmer, Elleke 75, 80 n32, 83, 96 n12, 219,227 n66, 227 n67

Boer War 169Bombay (Mumbai) 197, 203, 206 n8Bonaparte, Napoleon 62, 72, 173Bontempelli, Massimo 72

Booker, Keith (African historical novel) 79n15

Boone, Joseph A. 131 n28Bose, Brinda 130 n22Bose, Nirmal Kumar 206 n5Bosnia 45Bougainville 67, 70

Bowen, Rhys Evans Above 183Boyce-Davies, Carole 128 n1Boyle, Danny Slumdog Millionaire 207 n20Bracke, Astrid (ecocriticism) 96 n11Brantlinger, Patrick 25, 33 n18Brathwaite, Edward Kamau Trenchtown

Rock 204, Odale’s Choice 231Brennan, Timothy 57 n5Brinkley, Edward S. 246 n6Britain 15, 16, 20, 23, 25, 62, 67, 173, 174,

175, 177, 183, 184, 192, British Empire15, 16, 17, 133, British Fiction(database) 20, British incursions 21, 25,British India 17, 21, British law 29,British North America 210, Britishwriters 25, British political system 23,British Raj 189, British society 17

British writers 23, 172Briton 17, 18, 19, 28, 30Brockden Brown, Charles 184, Wieland 19

Brodber, Ema 125, 164Brontë sisters 62, 63Brontë, Charlotte Jane Eyre 16, 18, 24, 25,

31, 120, 160, Gayatri Spivak 212

Brontë, Emily Wuthering Heights 25Brookmyre, Christopher 177Brooks, Peter 215Brown, James N. 131 n28Browne, Ray B. 173, 177, 185 n24, 186 n34Bruce, John Edward The Black Sleuth 170Brueghel, Pieter Icarus in Auden’s “Musée des

Beaux Arts” 235

Bruen, Ken The Guards 178Bucknor, Michael A. 130 n21, 132 n34Buddhism 30, 168Buell, Frederick 91, 97 n35Bulawayo, NoViolet We Need New Names 6,

7, 13 n16Bulosan, Carlos America is in the Heart 141,

151 n31, 151 n32Bunyan Pilgrim’s Progress 15Burke, Declan Eight-Ball Boogie 178Burke, Edmund 152, 157, Enquiry 152, 153,

164 n3, 164 n5Burma 65Burton, Antoinette 229 n75Burtscher-Bechter, Beate 187 n45Busia, Abena 131 n29Butler, Judith 59 n33, 122, Frames of War 56

Cacioppo, Marina 185 n9Cairo 25California 37, 38, 136, 143, 170, 171

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Campbell, Chris (Wilson Harris and DerekWalcott) 97 n24

Camus, Albert 5Canada 17, 20, 29, 175, 228 n73, Canadian

crime fiction 175, Canadian magicrealism 72, 93, Canadian novels 61,Canadian writers 136, 175, 229 n85,diaspora 228 n73

Cannibalism 230

Capitalism 44, 45, 48, 54, 83, 93, 94, 147,192, 201, colonial capitalism 197

Carew, Jan Black Midas 119, 130 n16Caribbean 18, 21, 31, 81, 84, 117, 125, 126,

191, 196, 211, 212, intra-Caribbeantravels 22, Caribbean Bildungsroman160, Caribbean colonialism 212,Caribbean creole 26, Caribbean creolewriters 23, French Caribbean 175,French Caribbean writers 184,Caribbean gay literature 123,Caribbean history 160, Caribbeanidentity and transgenderism 126,Caribbean literature 116, 124, Caribbeanslavery 84, Caribbean women writers126, Caribbean writers 172

Carpenter, Edward 130 n22Carpentier, Alejo 72

Carrigan, Anthony 96 n8, 97 n30, 98 n42, 98n44, 114 n17

Carter, Angela Nights At the Circus 72Carter, Charlotte Rhode Island Red 172

Carter, Paul 227 n59Carter, Steven R. 180, 186 n42Caruth, Cathy 70, 80 n21Casanova, Pascale 42Casely-Hayford, Joseph 3

Castells, Manuel 57 n2Catharsis 234, 235Cawelti, John G. 176, 186 n32Chakrabarty, Dipesh 4, 13 n8, 98 n46, 129

n5Chambers, Claire 180, 184, 186 n41,

187 n55Chamoiseau, Patrick 177, 186 n30,

Solibo magnifique 175, Texaco 204,207 n31

Chandra, Vikram Love and Longing inBombay 199, Sacred Games 180

Character development 20, 24, 27, 28,psychological development 26, femalecharacters (in Gary Shteyngart’sAbsurdistan) 47

Chariandy, David 228 n73

Chateaubriand, François-René 62, Itinérairede Paris à Jérusalem 63

Chatterjee, Partha 190, 206 n5, 207 n19, 207n25, 229 n79

Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales 6Chekov, Pavel 230Cheney-Coker, Syl (magic realism) 80 n33Cherokee 18, 227 n63Cherokee writers 176, 177Chickasaw writers 176Children 30, 118, 119, childhood 7, 31,

childhood and homosexuality 127

Chin, Frank Donald Duk 138, 143, 151 n42Chin, Timothy 129 n6China 79, 137, 202, Cultural Revolution 147Choctaw writers 177Choi, Susan, The Foreign Student 138, 139,

150 n24Christianity 1, 11, 25, 110, 119, 158, 222,

240, 241, crime fiction 167

Chu, Louis Eat a Bowl of Tea 143

Chung, Catherine Forgotten Country 147,151 n53, 151 n54

Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street138

Citizenship 104, 190Clarke, Austine 130 n20Class 14 n18,23,64,65,68,73,78,91,92,110,

123, 124, 127, 128, 131 n28, 137, 140,141, 142, 172, 190, 191, 197, 199, 200,201, 202, 213, gender 172, race 31, 172

Classification systems 18, 23Cliff, Michelle 125, 132 n33, No Telephone

to Heaven 126, 127, 197Clifford, James 13 n8Climate change 94, 95Coetzee, J. M. 5, 7, 11, 161, 162, 163, 216,

223, David Attwell 215, Disgrace 161,162, 165 n22, 236, Dusklands 165 n19,Foe 9, 15, 212, 236, The Master ofPetersburg 163, 165 n25, Slow Man 236,Waiting for the Barbarians 163, 165 n24,215, 216, 217, 218, 219, 227 n49, 227n50, 227 n52, 236, White Writing 161,165 n21, Jerusalem Prize AcceptanceSpeech 165 n20

Cold War 36, 37, 38, 40, 44, 45, 46, 51, 69,Cold War (Order) 35, Cold War spyfiction 184

Cohen, Gustavus Roy 170

Cole, Teju Open City 135, 136, 137, 138,139, 150 n12, 150 n18, 150 n22, 150n25

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Coleman, Daniel 224Coleridge and Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads

72

Collins, Wilkie The Moonstone 25, 167, 168Colonial city 189, 191, 193Colonial encounter 2, 3Colonial history 86, 93, 148, 160, 196, 200,

208, 211, 212, 218Colonial rule 10, 18, 24, 26, 28, 29, 32, 157,

188, 197, 200Colonial school system 24Colonial society 26, 29Colonial sublime 11, 155, 162Colonial time 214Colonialism 7, 63, 82, 100, 119, 123, 188,

apartheid 88, crime fiction 169, (neo)colonialism 73, race 210, sexual interest118, colonialism space 216, V.S. Naipaul 213, colonial Other 238,Western education 119, white women118

Colonization 41, 123, 144, 206, 222, Algeria209, 210, crime fiction 167, 176, theDominican Republic 144, politicalcolonization 87, decolonization 1, 5, 8,10, 32, 33, 81, 83, 100, 102, 104, 106,134, 189, 209, 210, 212, 220, 237, 238,239

Columbian writers 72Comedy 44, 213, 230, John Galt 20, comic

recoil 171Commonwealth literature 3, 4Community 4, 20, 21, creole communities 21,

diasporic community 142, heterogeneousCaribbean communities 22, race 143

Condé Maryse Ségou 65

Confiant, Raphaël Le Meutre du Samedi-Gloria 175

Congo 7, 112, 139, 154, 218Conrad, Joseph 2, 6, 16, 30, 154, 156, 157,

223, Chinua Achebe 155, Heart ofDarkness 16, 28, 29, 63, 85, 118, 129n12, 154, 155, 218, Heart of Darknessand David Dabydeen’s The Intended127, Heart of Darkness andenvironmental violence 85, Lord Jim 26,27, 34 n23

Conservation 81, 90, conservationism 88,anticolonial conservationism 88

Cooper, Brenda (magic realism) 80 n33Cooper, Frederick 190, 206 n6Cooper, James Fenimore 22, The Pioneers 21,

22, 33n15

“Coromantee” 18

Corpi, Lucha Eulogy for a Brown Angel 182Corporeal 99 (also see “body”)Corruption 9, 24, 74, 100, 105, 178, 179,

180, 181, 182, 184, 194, 202Cosmopolitanism 5, 7, 197, 198, 199, 224,

postcolonial cosmopolitanism 200, 228n73

Côte d’Ivoire 67, Ivorian writers 69Creoles 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 30, American

Creole 17, Caribbean Creoles 21, Creoleculture 175, Creole elite 22, 23, figure of23, Creole fiction 18, 32, Creole hero 23,Creole insider 30, “Creole Negroes” 18,North American Creoles 21, 22, Creolenovel 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, Creoleromance novel 32, Creole writers 18, 32,Creole pioneers” 18, 21, 24, Creoleprotagonist 21, Creole slaves 18, Creoleex-slaves 196, Creoles slave-owning elite23, white Creoles 22, 23, 26, 32, WestIndian white Creoles 19, Creole women120

Creolization 26, 32, 33CrèveœurLetters from an American Farmer 19Crime 166, 173, 177, Christianity 167, ad

Native American people 176, Australiancriminality 169

Crime fiction 11, 93, 166, 169, 174,178, 181, African American crime fiction169, 171, 176, 182, Austrian crimefiction 181, early crime fiction 167,Harlem crime novels 170, Irish crimefiction 178, Italian crime fiction 183,184, Latina crime fiction 176,postcolonial crime fiction 175, 176, 183,184, South African adaptations ofGreek tragedies 231, South African crimefiction 181, Spanish crime fiction 182,Swedish crime fiction 184, Zulu crimefiction 182

Crosby, Alfred 82, 96 n5Cuban writers 72Culture 21, 81, British cultural system 23,

cultural crossing 31, European culture17, 18, cultural hybridity 22,postcolonial culture 32, cultural relations25, Western culture 112

Cummings, Ronald 129 n6Currey, James 60, 79 n1Customs 21, 22, 29, 30, 31, 65, 155, folk

customs 16, 21Cyberglobalism 37

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Dabydeen, David The Intended 127

Daeninckx, Didier, Meutres pour mémoire(Murder in Memoriam) 178

Dangarembga, Tsitsi Nervous Conditions 66,102, 114 n7, The Book of Not 102, 114n9

Danish writers 127Danticat, Edwidge 120, Breath, Eyes,

Memory 122

Daswani, Girish 150 n4, 228 n71David, Deirdre 25, 34 n18Davidson, Michael (disability and the body)

107, 115 n24Davidson, Robert 135, 136, 137, 150 n14,

150 n17Davis, Lenard J. 113, 115 n38, 115 n39Davis, Mike 200, Planet of Slums 207 n2,

“The Urbanization of Empire” 207 n22,207 n23

Dawson, Ashley 204, 207 n32de Certeau, Michel 215, 227 n48de Hog, Kees 185 n23De Lillo, Don Cosmopolis 36, 37, 43, 44, 48,

51, Falling Man 54, Mao II 43, 9/11 43,51, 52, Underworld 51, Samuel Beckett43

Death 19, 27, 91, 106, 113, death drive 44Decolonization 1, 5, 8, 10, 32, 33, 81, 83,

100, 102, 104, 106, 134, 189, 209, 210,212, 220, 237, 238, 239

Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe 15, 16, 17,118, 212, Bildungsroman 66, realism 62,Robert Marzec 83, 96 n13

Deighton, Len 184DeLoughrey, Elizabeth 96 n1, 96 n8, 97 n16,

97 n20, 97 n37Derrida, Jacques 55, 59 n30Desai, Anita 120

Desai, Kiran 8, The Inheritance of Loss 78,138, 142, 144, 151 n34, 151 n44

Deshpande, Shashi120,That Long Silence 199Diaspora 4, 5, 9, 36, 133, 134, 141, class 142,

space 133, 135, 137, 138, Asiandiasporas in America 123, 142, Asiandiasporas in Europe 123, black diasporas32, Dominican diaspora 144, 242,Jewish diaspora 133

Devji, Faisal (terrorism and militant Islam) 58n6

Devraj, Rajesh 206 n8Diasporic, aesthetic 8, diasporic identity 140,

228 n70, diasporic imaginary 133, 138,

139, 146, diasporic networks andterrorism 38, diasporic novels 133, 135,137, 141, 143, 146, 148, 149, diasporicpostcolonial novels 8

Díaz, Junot 6, 8, 243,The Brief and WondrousLife of Oscar Wao 144, 148, 151 n43,151 n56, 235, 239, 242, 246 n21

Dibia, Jude Walking with Shadows 126, 127Dickens, Charles 122, 138, Chinua Achebe’s

No Longer at Ease 234, 235, GreatExpectations 25, 167, realism 62, 63

Dickens, Philip 11

Dickinson, Emily 112

Diduar, Jill 96 n8Dinh, Linh Love Like Hate 137, 150 n21Diop, Boubacar Boris 69Disability 9, 105, 107, 111, 115 n38, body

100, 109, postcolonial novels 102, 104,107, “social model of disability” 101,Michael Davidson 115 n24, SusanReynolds and Benedicte Ingstad 115 n28

Displacement 11, 133, 134, 135, 208Dixon, Robert 115 n35Domesticity 21, 137Domination 15, 35, 66, 82, 84, 118, 148Dominican Republic 46, 144, 242, First

American Occupation of the DominicanRepublic 144

Donaldson, Tamsin 173, 185 n22Donne, John 243Donnell, Alison 130 n15, 130 n18, 132 n34Dostoyevsky (in J. M Coetzee’s The Master of

Petersburg) 163, The Idiot (in GaryShteyngart’s Absurdistan) 47

Dow, UnityThe Screaming of the Innocent 183Doyle, Arthur Conan The Mystery of

Cloomber 168, Sherlock Holmes 168,179, The Sign of Four 168, “TheAdventure of the Blanched Soldier” 169,“The Adventure of the ‘Gloria Scott’”169, “The Boscombe Valley Mystery”169, “The Crooked Man” 169, “TheSpeckled Band” 169

Du Bois, W. E. B 172, “Doubleconsciousness” 172

Dublin 178

Duff, Alan Once Were Warriors 175, OneNight Out Stealing 175

Duiker, K. Sello, Thirteen Cents 121, TheQuiet Violence of Dreams 121, 126, 127

Dutch colonies 19Dystopian novels 91, 127

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Eduardo, José The Book of Chameleons 80 n36Elizabeth (Queen) 122; Elizabethan England

230

Ebersohn, Wessel A Lonely Place to Die 182,Closed Circle 182

Ecocriticism 10, 81, postcolonial 82, DominicHead 96 n10

“Ecological imperialism” 82Ecology 83, India 92, political 82, ecological

wasteland 91

Edgeworth, Maria Belinda 20Eduardo, José The Book of Chameleons 78Education 20, British educational system 23,

31, Colonial school system 24, Westerneducation 119, 145

Edwards, Jason 122, 130 n23Egypt 72Egyptian Revolution 65

Ekwensi, Cyprian Jagua Nana 120Eliot, George 62, 63, 230Emecheta, Buchi 69, In the Ditch 31, The Joys

of Motherhood 66, 121, Second-ClassCitizen 31, 191

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 26

Enclosure Movement 83England 20, 24, 31, 32, 51, 166, 171, 197,

Jacobean England 230, medievalEngland 20, modern England 20

English literary canon 160, 212English 19, 190, 202English bourgeoisie 169, English colonies 19,

English colonizers 123, English novel 19,23, 24, 32

Enlightenment 82, 169, 176, 239Environment 26, 28, 91, disability 104,

Guyana 85, in postcolonial novels 10,postcolonial studies 81, environmentalexploitation 88, 95, “environmentalracism” 82, 94

Epic 20, 84, 93, 94; epic heroes 230Epistemology 11, 84, 94, 153, 154, 155Epistolary novel 19Eri, Vincent The Crocodile 64, 79 n12, 119,

122, 127, 131 n25, 132 n39Eroticism 117, 122Ester, Hans 181, 187 n49Esty, Jed 26, 34 n20, Bildungsroman 25

Ethics 28, 71, 103, 104, 233Ethnicity 24, 127, 175, 181Euripides, Medea 231

Europe 18, 20, 21, 117, Europeans 84, ex-European 26, European Asian diasporas123, European culture 17, 18, Eastern

Europe 45, homosexuality 123,European novels 116

Exile 24, exilic 5, Trinidad 24, 31Exploration 84Expropriation 21

Family 21, 27, 119, 139, 243, 245Fanon, Frantz 5, 27, 34 n22, 114 n16, 193,

204, 206, 236, 238, 239, 246 n12,Black Skin, White Masks 237, 246 n13,246 n16, “national bourgeoisie” 213,colonial space 210, The Wretched ofthe Earth 206 n14, 209, 210, 225 n11,225 n12, 226 n34, 226 n35, 226 n36,238, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 237

Fantasy 125

Farah,Nuruddin 119, From a Crooked Rib 120

Faris, Wendy (magical realism) 73, 80 n26Fast, Howard (E. V. Cunningham) Samantha

183

Feminism 126, Feminist ideology 117,Feminist fiction 27, Femininity 118

Fiction 18, 21, 23, Anglophone fiction 22,British fiction (database) 20, creolefiction 19, 32, juvenile fiction 25,metropolitan fiction 19, postcolonialtheory 228 n69

Fielding, Henry 62

Figiel, Sia Where We Once Belonged 66

Filipino writers 133, 141Fink, Eugene 42First World 5, 217First World War 191Fisher, Rudolph The Conjure-Man Dies 170Fitzgerald, Scott The Great Gatsby 36, 48, 58

n24, 233Flaubert, Gustave 62, 63, Madame Bovary

62, Salammbô 63

Flores, Angel 72Foley, Helene 246 n5Folk, customs 16, 21, 31, folk life 21, folklore

176

Forna, Aminatta The Memory of Love 70Forster, E. M. 2, 3, 16, 30, 157, 190,

A Passage to India 28, 30, 34 n24, 120,130 n19, 154, 164 n8

Foucault, Michel 209, 210, 226 n19,Discipline and Punish 167, “Of OtherSpaces” 209, 217, 222, 225 n5, 225 n6,225 n7, 225 n8, 225 n9, 227 n56, 229n82, 229 n83, Edward Said 210,Gayatri Spivak 210, colonial space 223,postcolonialism 225 n16

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Fox, Claire F. 228 n73France6,15,20, 32,62,67,170,176,184, 210,

and Tahiti 65, and decolonization warwith Algeria 209, 210, Francophone 168

Frank, Arthur 111, 115 n36, 115 n37Frank, Joseph 215, 226 n46French Caribbean 175, French Caribbean

writers 184French colonies (North Africa) 211French Revolution 62

French, Tana In the Woods 178Friendship 24, 141Fugard, Athol The Island 231, 233

Galileo 209Galt, John Bogle Corbet 20, 33 n10, The

Emigrants 20, 33 n10Gamboa, Santiago 39

Gandhi (in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’sChildren) 245

Gandhi, Indira 74, 197Gandhi, Leela 40, 58 n13, 130 n22Garcia, Neil C. 128 n4Garland-Thomson, Rosemarie 114 n5,

“proto-ordinary body” 101, “normate”14 n20

Gaskell, Elizabeth 62

Gates, Henry Louis 171Geeraerts, Jef The Public Prosecutor 181Gender 3, 9, 23, 24, 30, 91, 116, 120, 123,

126, 127, gender identity 121, 123, class140, race 172

Gene patenting 82

Genealogy 26Genga-Idowu, F. M. Lady in Chains 121Germany 79, Nazi Germany 181, German 46,

168, 180, German writers 181Ghana 67, 193, Ghanaian writers 123, 124Ghosh, Amitav The Glass Palace 65, Sea of

Poppies 78, The Calcutta Chromosome179

Gikandi, Simon 32, 34 n29, 190, 206 n7Gillepsie, Carol Classics in Post-Colonial

Worlds 231Global south 9, 116, 117, 119, 123, 124Global warming 95

Globalization 10, 40, 83, 90, 95, 136, 188,200, and Carlos Alonso 38, globalizationvs. “mondialization” 43, economicglobalization 87

Godsland, Shelley 179

Godwin, William 184Goldberg, David Theo 115 n30

Gopinath, Gayatri Impossible Desires 128,131 n32

Gordimer, Nadine The Conservationist 87,97 n27

Gordon, Gaylene Above Suspicion 174

Gosson, Reneée K 97 n16Gothic 17, 93, gothic novels 19, gothic

melodrama 16Goudie, Sean X. 19, 33 n9Grace, Patricia Potiki 60, 77, 89, 94, 175,

Dogside Story 89, 90, 97 n32Graf, Roger Zurich bei Nacht 181Graham, James 97 n26, 97 n28Graphic digital images 35Graphic novel 190Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum 74

Graves, Anne Adams 128 n1Greek 6, mythology 112, Greek tragedies 230,

231, 239, South African adaptations ofGreek tragedies 231, Greek tragic hero233

Green Revolution 82, 92Greene, Graham 3, 16, 30, The Heart of the

Matter 28, 34 n25, 234Grenville, Kate Lilian’s Story 9, 97 n21Griffiths, Gareth 4, 208, 225 n4, 226 n26Grove, Richard 91, 98 n38Gruesser, John Cullen 185 n14Guadeloupian writers 65Guatemalan writers 72Guianese writers 69Guyana 156, landscape 85, Guyanese writers

119

Handley, George B. 96 n1, 97 n16, 97 n20Hardwick, Lorna Classics in Post-Colonial

Worlds 231, 246 n4Hagedorn Tarahata, Jessica Dogeaters 121,

Gangster of Love 145, 151 n46Hager, Jean The Grandfather Medicine

176Haggard, Rider 2, King Solomon’s Mines 25,

118, She 25Haitian revolution 239, Haitian writers 120Hale, Dorothy 1Hall, Stuart, 228 n70Hallward, Peter 157, 164 n12Hamid, Mohsin The Reluctant

Fundamentalist 5, 145, and tragedy 233Hardt, Michael 220, 228 n72Hardy, Thomas 62Harlem crime novels 170Harlem Renaissance 170

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Harris, Wilson 87, 97 n22, 97 n23, 156, 157,158, 159, 161, The Guyana Quarter 85,86, Palace of the Peacock 32, 84, 85, 86,87, 156, 157, 164 n11, The SecretLadder 156, 157, 164 n10

Hawaii 137, 146Hayot, Eric 42, 58 n7, 58 n9, 58 n18Head,BessieAQuestionofPower79,Maru 125Head, Dominic (ecocriticism) 96 n10, 97 n29Headley, Victor Yardie 173Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 20, 48, 233,

246 n8, and Frantz Fanon 237, and Jean-Paul Sartre 237

Heidegger, Martin 42, 43, 58 n19, 162Hemmingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises 127Herbeck, Jason 175

Heterosexuality 116, 119, 121, 122, 123, 125Hetherington, Carol 185 n23Hill, Lawrence Book of Negroes 221Hill, Reginald Blood Sympathy 173

Hillerman, Tony 176, The Blessing Way 176,Dance Hall of the Dead 176, People ofDarkness 176

Himes, Chester 171, 172, 173, For Love ofImabelle (A Rage in Harlem) 170

Hindu 37, 49, mythology 74Hinojosa, Rolando Ask a Policeman 182

Historical novels 16, 17, 67, 79 n15, 85, vs.magic realism 244, historiographicalmetafiction 244, African historical novel(Keith Booker) 79 n15

Historical romances 25Hoad, Nevile Wallace 131 n30Hodge, Bob 229 n88Hodge, Merle 120Høeg, Peter The Women and the Ape 127Hogan, Linda Mean Spirit 176, 186 n33Hogg, James 184Hollinghurst, Alan The Swimming Pool

Library 123

Holocaust 138, 181Homophobia 123, 125Homosexuality 117, 119, 122, 123, 124, 125,

127, and childhood 127, and class 123,125, and postcolonial literature 117,homosexual desire 124, homosexualexploitation 123

Homosociality 123

Hopkins, Pauline Hagar’s Daughter 170Hopkinson, Nalo 132 n33, Brown Girl in the

Ring 126, Midnight Robber 126, TheNew Moon’s Arms 126, The Salt Roads126, 132 n36

Hospital, Janette Turner 44, Orpheus Lost36, 55, 56

Hosseini, Khaled The Kite Runner 67Howe, Irving 227 n51Hoy, Helen 228 n74Huber, Werner 246 n6Huchu, Tendai The Hairdresser of Harare 126Huggan, Graham 96 n7, 97 n18, 214, 226

n38, 245 n3Hulme, Keri The Bone People 76, 77, 109,

110, 111, 115 n31, 115 n32, 236Hulme, Peter 79 n7Human rights (Bildungsroman) 69, (Michael

Ignatieff) 69, 79 n17, Joseph Slaughter66, 79 n14, 80 n18

Humanitarian imagination 35, 36Hutcheon, Linda (historiographical

metafiction) 13 n15, 244, 246 n22Huxley, Elspeth 181Hyam, Ronald 118, 129 n9Hybridity 5, 22, cultural hybridity 22, 177Hyland, Adrian Diamond Dove 174,

Gunshot Road 174Hypercapitalism 36

Ibsen, Henrik 230, 235Ignatieff, Michael (human rights) 69, 79 n17Ihimaera, Witi 125, Nights in the Gardens of

Spain 125, The Uncle’s Story 125, TheWhale Rider 77, 125, 127

Illness 99, 101, insanity 28

Imchen, Meren 206 n8Immigration 166, 180, 192, colonial

migration 31, immigrant tenements 149,immigrant writers 45

Imperialism 3, 25, 27, 64, 81, 83, 121, 154,178, 188, 189, 202, 215, 219, Americanimperialism 169, imperialist capitalism166, imperial culture 32, ecologicalimperialism 10, 82, 94, imperialexpansion 25, imperial gaze 152,imperial rule 22

Incest 125Indentured labour 196India 7, 17, 22, 23, 25, 29, 37, 38, 65, 81, 92,

95, 144, 152, 166, 191, 196, 197, 201,202, 219, 229 n84, British India 17, 21,Indian diasporas (Vijay Mishra) 14 n19,Indian empire 30, Indian partition 37,70, Indian novels 61, representations ofIndia 30, 191, Indian women writers 65

Indian Ocean territories 21Indira Gandhi’s Emergency 74

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Individualism 83, 135, 169, 231, 236, 238Industrial Revolution 188

Ingstad, Benedicte (disability and culture)115 n28

Innes, C. L. 130 n17Intertextuality 5, 232, 233Iraq 35, 45, 54, Ian McEwan’s Saturday 36,

57 n3Ireland 16, 177, Irish 30, 46, Irish crime

fiction 177, Irish writers 168Isaac, Allan 151 n33ISIS 2

Islam 1, 38, Islamic culture 103,fundamentalism 37, Muslims 27, 49, 70,radicalization 38

Israel 65Italy 20, 183, Italian crime fiction 183, 184Izzo, Jean-Claude Total Khéops 180

Jacobean England 230, Jacobean revenge 230Jamaica 20, 22, 23, 61, 191, 196, 197, and

Claude McKay, Banana Bottom 32,Jamaican Maroons 29, Jamaican patois78, Jamaican slaves 22, Jamaican writers32, 61, 78, 164

James, C. L. R. The Black Jacobins 239, 246n18, Minty Alley 120

James, Henry 122

Jameson, Frederic 4, 8, 150 n5, Third Worldliterature 13 n18, 228 n70

Japan 79, 139, 183, Japanese Imperial Army145, Nagasaki 146

Japanese writers 136Jarret-McCaulay, Delia Moses, Citizen and

Me 79Jen, Gish The Love Wife 147, 148, 151 n52,

151 n58Jewish diaspora 133

Jewishness 182Jeyifo, Biodun 4, 5, 8, 13 n9, 13 n13Jiabao, Wen 202Jin, Ha A Free Life 136, 143, 148, 135,

150 n11, Waiting 147, 151 n40, 151n41, 151 n55, 151 n57, War Trash 137

Jingoism 167Jones, Christopher 187 n46Jones, Stan White Sky Black Ice 175Joseph, E. L. Warner Arundell 21, 22Journal of Commonwealth Literature 3Joyce, James Ulysses 26, Portrait of the Artist

as a Young Man 26

Justice, Daniel Heath 228 n74Juvenile fiction 25

Kafkaesque 178Kalideh, Sahar 69Kanafani, Ghassan 69

Kang, Younghill 133, East Goes West 136,144, 150 n3, 150 n20

Kant 154, Critique of Judgment 153Kant, Immanuel 40, 164 n9Kapur, Manju Difficult Daughters 65Kashmir 38, Shalimar the Clown 35

Katrak, Ketu H. 128 n1, 130 n17Kaye, M.M. 181Kazakhstan 45

Keating, H. R. F. 187 n54, The PerfectMurder 183

Keller, Nora Comfort Woman 146, 151 n49Kellerman, Faye The Ritual Bath 182

Kemelman, Harry Friday the Rabbi Slept Late182

Kenya 23, 105, 194, Kenyan writers 68, 180,195

Kermode, Frank 2

Khadra, Yasmina 180, Le dingue au bistori(The Madman with a Scalpel) 181

Khilnani, Sunil 189, 206 n4Khomeini (Salman Rushdie’s fatwa) 38Khoury, Elias Gate of the Sun 69Kidwai, Saleem 130 n22Kim, Julie 177, 186 n35Kim, Soo Yeon 187 n53Kim, Suki The Interpreter 183, 187 n53Kincaid, Jamaica 11, 130 n15, 131 n32, 157,

163, Annie John 160, TheAutobiography of My Mother 159, 160,165 n16, Lucy 67, 149, 151 n63, 151n64, 160, 165 n18

King, Anthony 207 n24King, Rosamond S. 117, 129 n5, 129 n8,

130 n20King, Thomas 227 n63Kingslover, Barbara The Poisonwood Bible

101, 108, 112, 114 n6Kingston, Maxine Hong China Men 135,

137, 139, 150 n16, Woman Warrior 144Kinsella, John 85, 97 n19Kipling, Rudyard 2, Kim 26, 29, 30, 34 n26,

nostalgia 30, “White Man’s Burden”217, 227 n58

Knepper, Wendy 132 n36, “doublecolonisation” 182, 187 n51

Knight, Stephen 11, 12, 185 n4Kogawa, Joy Obasan 137, 146, 151 n48Komo, Dolores (Koontz, Dean) 171, Clio

Brown: Private Investigator 171

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Koontz, Dean (Dolores Komo) 171, ClioBrown: Private Investigator 171

Korea 138

Korean war 137Korean writers 133Kourouma, Ahmadou Les Soleils des

independences 67Kureishi, Hanif Buddha of Suburbia 123,

191

Kyd, Thomas 230

L’Ouverture, Toussaint and the Haitianrevolution 239

Lahiri, Jhumpa The Namesake 142, 149,151 n59, Unaccustomed Earth 142

Laing, Kojo (magic realism) 80 n33Landscape 11, 162, colonial landscape 212Language 22, 23, 29Larsson, Stieg 184Latin America 35, 177, Latin American

writers 39, 72Latina crime fiction 176

Lauder, Maureen 179, 186 n40Lazarus, Neil 4, 5, 13 n12, 68, 150 n4, 194,

206 n15, African fiction 79 n16,Lamming, George 130 n15, 130 n20, Inthe Castle of My Skin 24, The Emigrants24, 31

Le Carré, John 184

Le Queux, William 168Leal, Luis 72Leatherstocking tales 22Lee, Chang-rae 183,Native Speaker 144, 183,

A Gesture Life 145, 151 n47, Aloft 148Lee, Rachel 129 n13Lefebvre, Henri 208, 209, 222, 223, The

Production of Space 214, 225 n1, 229n80, Edward Soja 214

Leibniz 42Leon, Donna 184

Leroux, Etienne Een vir Azazel (One for theDevil) 181

Lesbian desire 116, 120, 124, Lesbian sexualpractices 117

Levy, Andrea Small Island 78, 191Lewis, Robert The Last Llanelli Train

177

Libretti, Tim 187 n50Linguistic groups 23Linton, Patricia 176, 186 n33Llosa, Mario Vargas 6Llosa, Mario Vargas Death in the Andes

178

London 18, 24, 29, 31, 36, 37, 55, 57, 60, 61,135, 167, 172, 191, 203, imperialLondon 190

London, Bette 129 n12Loomba, Ania 118, 129 n11Lorde, Audre 220, 228 n69Lovelace, Earl The Dragon Can’t Dance 196,

207 n17Lucashenko, Helen 174

Luckhurst, Roger (trauma) 80 n21Lukács, Georg 40, 41, 48, 58 n14, 150 n1,

The Theory of the Novel 20, 33 n12, 133Lazarus, Neil 68Lyotard, Jean-François 152, 159, 164 n2,

“Answering” 165 n15

Mā’ohi writer 65Mabanckou, Alain Broken Glass 5, 6, 7, 13

n14Macdonald, Andrew 176, 186 n26, 186 n31Macdonald, Gina 176, 186 n26, 186 n31Macdonald, Ross 184Macnaghten, Phil 82, 96 n6Madrid 18

Magic realism 10, 11, 67, 70, 72, 73, 74, 75,77, 78, 190, 239, 244, 245, Canadianmagic realism 72, 93, Salman Rushdie’sMidnight’s Children 245, Ato Quayson247 n23, Kojo Laing and Brenda Cooper80 n33, Lois Parkinson Zamora 73, 80n27, Mariano Siskind 247 n23,postcolonial novel and magic realism 74,239, 244, Syl Cheney-Coker 80 n33

Mahfouz, Naguib (Najīb Mahfūz) The CairoTrilogy 65, 79 n13

Maillot, Agnès 180, 187 n44Mais, Roger 130 n20Malamud, Bernard God’s Grace 127Malouf, David 11, 157, 158, 159,

Remembering Babylon 157, 164 n13Manhattan 37, 46Manila 183

Mankell, Henning 184

Mantell, Laurie Murder and Chips 174Māori 89, 109, 110, 115 n32, 125, 174, 175,

identity 174, writers 69, 76, 77, 125, 132n35

Maracle, Lee 228 n74Marechera, Dambudzo The House of Hunger

5

Marcus, George 13 n8Markandaya, Kamala 120Marlowe, Christopher Dr. Faustus 235

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Maroko 203, 204Marquand, J. P. 183Márquez, Gabriel García 6, 7, 35, One

Hundred Years of Solitude 72, 74, 239,244, Chronicle of a Death Foretold 74,178

Marriage 21, 26, 113, and Victorian ideology118, Japanese picture brides 141

Marseilles (Claude McKay’s Banjo) 32Marshall, Paule 130 n15Marshall, William, Yellowthread Street 183,

187 n54Marston, John 230

Martínez-Alier, Joan 96 n9Martinique 175, 204Marxism 71

Marzec, Robert 83, 96 n13Masculinity 101, 118, 119, 124, 129 n13,

143, anticolonial masculinity 122,emasculation 119, 122

Mason, Travis (colonial environments) 97n16

Masondo, Meshak Iphisi Nezinyoka (TheHunter and the Snake) 182

Massumi, Brian 56, 59 n31, 59 n32Mbembe, Achille 4, 13 n8, 106, 109, 114 n21,

114 n22, 115 n25, 115 n29, 129 n5, 246n17

McCaulay, Diana Dog-Heart 78McClintock 129 n13, 217, 218, 224, 227

n57, 227 n62, 229 n87McClure, James 186 n28, The Song Dog 175,

The Steam Pig 175

McEwan, Ian 44, Saturday 36, 55, 57McFetridge, John Everybody Knows this is

Nowhere 175McGarth, M.J. (Melanie) White Heat 175McKay, Claude Banana Bottom 31, 34 n28,

Banjo 32, Home to Harlem 32

McKeon, Michael 188, 189, 206 n2McLaren, Philip Scream Black Murder 173,

LightingMine 174,Murder in Utopia 174

Mda, Zakes The Whale Caller 127Mead Margaret 66Medicine 99, 110, 112Melhop, Val 115 n30Melodrama 93, 120Memory 95, 146Mendes, Alfred Black Fauns 124Mengestu, Dinaw 135, 136, 137, 139, The

Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears 150n10, 150 n19, 150 n28

Mestizo 182

Metafiction 102, historiographicalmetafiction 244

Methodism 21

Metropolitan 25, 83, 188, metropolis 135,201, imperial metropolis 190

Mexico 46, 177Michaels, Anne Fugitive Pieces 236Middleton, Thomas 230Migration 3, 100, immigrants 24, American

142, European 142

Mikell, Gwendolyn 131 n29Militarism 81, 84Mina, Denise 177Miscegenation 18, racial mixing 22, 31, 46,

mestizo 182, cultural hybridity 22, 177Mishra, Vijay 229 n88, Indian diasporas 19

n14Misogyny 25, 46Missionaries 21Mistry, Rohinton A Fine Balance 197, 207

n18Mitchell, David T. 115 n34, 115 n40,

“narrative prosthesis” 102, 114 n10, 114n13,

Mo, Timothy Sour Sweet 191Mobility 18, 20, 24Modernity 10, 58 7n, 76, 90, 94, 113, 176,

182, 188, 189, 190, 191, 193, 194, 203,206 n7, 225 n16, 231, 239, 245 n2,modern world 20, “supermoernity”(Marc Augé) 135, 136, 150 n6

Modernization 189

Mohamed, Abdul Jan 4

Mohegan 22Monénembo, Tierno 69

Montalbán, Manuel Vásquez Tatuaje(Tattoo) 179, Los mares del Sur(Southern Seas) 179

Moore, Alexander 226 n25, 226 n45Mootoo, Shani Cereus Blooms at Night 124,

126Moretti, Franco 3, 13 n6, 42, 48,

“Conjectures on World Literature” 39,The Way of the World 47, 58 n23

Morris, Pam 62, realism 79 n5Morisseau-Leroy, Felix Antigone in Haiti

231

Morrison, Toni Beloved 72, 246 n10, TheBluest Eye 147, 151 n50, 151 n51

Mosley, Walter 172, A Little Yellow 185 n14,Always Outnumbered, AlwaysOutgunned 171, Devil in a Blue Dress171

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Mpe, Phaswane The Quiet Violence ofDreams 126

Mugabe, Robert 102, 107Mukherjee, Meenakshi 64, 79 n10, 166, 167,

168

Mukherjee, Upamanyu Pablo 96 n11, 98 n41,184 n3, Crime and Empire 185 n5

Muller, Gilbert H. Chester Himes 185 n12Mulholland, Malcolm 132 n35Munro, Breanna M. South Africa and

the Dream of Love to Come 128,131 n30

Munt, Sally 171, 185 n15Murder 166, 170, 171, 176, 182, and tragedy

230Music (Janette Turner Hospital’s Orpheus

Lost) 36Muslims 27, 49, 70Mwangi, Meja The Cockroach Dance 120,

196, Kill Me Quick 195, Going DownRiver Road 68

Mystery 28, 76, 99, 156, 168, 169, 170, 173,175, 181, mystery writers 176

Mythology 27, cultural mythology 230

Nabokov 45Naipaul, V. S. 130 n20, 132 n32, A Bend in

the River 135, 150 n9, Guerrillas 9,A House for Mr. Biswas 32, In a FreeState 121, The Mimic Men 212, 218,223, 226 n28, 226 n29, 226 n30,Naipaul and colonialism 213

Nairobi 194, 195, 203Namjoshi, Suniti The Conversations of Cow

127

Nancy, Jean Luc 42, 43, 44, 58 n20, 58 n21,159, 165 n14

Narogin, Mudrooroo 173

Nash, William R. 85 n14Nasrallah, Ibrahim The Time of White

Horses 65Nation 4, 7, 11, 20, 22, 23, 26, 36, 42, 100,

116, 140, 231, national belonging 24,“national bourgeoisie” (Frantz Fanon)213, national identity 21, nationalsociety 22

Nationalism 2, 6, 18, 23, 35, 40, 71, 121,188, African nationalism 221, 222,Australian nationalism 85, Europeannationalism 24, anticolonial nationalism208, nationalist literature 119, 122, 219,nationalism and rape 121, patriotism184

Native 20, 21, 24, 30, Native American 176,Native American people and crime 176,Native American crime fiction 177,native land 21

Naturalism 69, vs. realism 68

Nature 11, 81, 88, 92, 161, and women 82,88, nature vs. culture 82

Navajo writers 176, culture 176Nazi Germany 181

Ndebele, Njabulo 68, Neil Lazarus 68Neely, Barbara Blanche on the Lam

172, Blanche Among the TalentedTenth 172

Negri, Antonio 220

Nehru 38Nehru, Jawaharlal 198Neocolonialism 81, 92, 100, 113, 121, 166,

173, 180, 183, 194, 195, neocolonialurbanism 195, 205

Neoliberalism 188, 192, 196, 200, 202Nerval, Gérard 62, 63, Voyage en Orient 63Netherlands 67New Delhi 201New World 213, novels of 21New York 183, Chinese diaspora 143,

Korean diaspora 133, 183New Zealand (ethnic minorities) 125,

New Zealander writers 76, 89, 109, 116,174

Newel, Stephanie 131 n27Newspapers 18, 57Ng, Faye Bone 138Nganang, Patrice Dog Days 78, 80 n36Nicholls, Brendon 114 n2Nichols, William J. 186 n36, 186 n38Nicoll, Allardyce 184 n2Nigeria 24, 155, 202, civil war 67Nigerian writers 66, 75, 126Nixon, Rob 90, 97 n33, 97 n34, 98 n39, 98

n42Njau, Rebeka Ripples in the Pool 120Nnaemeka, Obioma 131 n29Norridge, Zoe 9, 80 n20North America 21, 22, 81, 117, North

American creole writers 23Nostalgia 229 n84, Kipling 30, Rhys 31Novel (forms of) 19, 20, genre 3, antiquarian

novels 21, creole romance novel 32,novels in English 32, modernist novels26, New World novels 21, Victoriannovels 24

Nunn, Malla A Beautiful Place to Die 182Nwapa, Flora 69, 120, Efuru 66

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O’Neill, Joseph Netherland 36, 48Oedipus Rex (Ola Rotimi’s The Gods are Not

to Blame) 231Okada, John No-No Boy 139Okri, Ben 6, 8, The Famished Road 75, 76,

239, 244Olesti, Isabel in El marit invisible (The

Invisible Husband) 179Oliver, Maria-Antònia Estudi en lila (A Study

in Lilac) 179Oludhe-Macgoye, Marjorie Coming to Birth

121

Ondaatje, Michael Anil’s Ghost 70, 80 n22,106, 107, 114 n23, 179, The EnglishPatient 229 n85, 236

One Thousand and One Nights 74Ontic 42Ontological 8, 42, 156Oppression 21, 30, 83, 113, 172, 174, 213,

and disability 101, and homosexuality123

Oral tradition 75

The Oresteia 231Orford, Margie, Like Clockwork 182

Orient 60Orientalism (European) 63, 79 n6, 131 n28,

“Oriental tales” 21

Orwell, George 2Osei_Nyame, Kwawo 229 n76Osofisan, Femi Tegonni (Sophocles’

Antigone) 231Osunubi, Taiwo Adentunji 246 n20Otsuka, Julie When the Emperor Was Divine

137, The Buddha in the Attic 142, 151n35, 151 n36

Owens, Louis The Sharpest Sight 177Oyēwùmí, Oyèrónke 129 n4

Padilla, Ignacio 39

Pakistan 7, 8, 9, 37, 38, 103, 219, partition67, 70

Palestine 65, 69, Palestinian occupation 106,233

Palestinian writers 69Papua New Guinea 122, Papua New Guinean

novels 61, 64, 67Paris 18, 191, 209Parker, Andrew 130 n17Pasternak (Boris) 45Pastoral 19, pastoralism 87

Patriarchy 91, 92, 103, 126, 179, 182, racistpatriarchy 220

Pauls, Alan 39

Pavel, Thomas G. 58 n17Pecic, Zoran 132 n33Peet, Richard (“liberation ecologies”) 87, 97

n25Pepetela Return of the Water Spirit 235Persian 45

Peterson, Kirsten Holst (Chinua Achebe) 13n9

Philips, Mike 173, Blood Rights 172, 173Picaresque novel 19, 93Pinto, Samantha 130 n14Plaatje, Sol 3Planters 22, 23Plumwood, Val 82, 96 n4Pollution 85, 90, 91Port of Spain 196

Portugal 67Postapocalyptic fiction (Margaret Atwood) 91Postcolonial (term) 2, 3, 11, 22, 32, 208, and

postmodern narrative 188, and space208, 223

Powell, Patricia The Pagoda 126, 131 n32Prabhu, Anjali (Frantz Fanon) 246 n12Pratt, Mary Louise 4, 13 n8, 153, 164 n6, 226

n39Preemancipation 23Primitive 82Print capitalism” 18, 36Property 21, 23, 148, 173, ownership 26, 27,

107Prostitution 120, 121, male 121Puerto Rican 46

Puritan colonies 210Putin, Vladmir 46

Quayson, Ato 13 n7, 75, 76, 80 n23, 114n11, 114 n14, 114 n15, 115 n30, 139,150 n4, 151 n29, 220, 224, 226 n21, 228n71, 229 n89, 245 n3, magic realism 247

n23Queen Elizabeth and rape 122Queer sexual practices 117

Rabinovici, Doron Suche nach M (Search forM) 181

Race 3, 4, 23, 30, 46, 81, 111, 138, 142, 143,172, class 31, 123, 137, 172, socialtension 173, colonialism 210

Racial mixing 22, 31, 46Racism 31, 155, 171, 172, antiracism 22

Radović, Stanka 229 n86Raleigh, Walter The Discovery of Guiana 86Rankin, Ian Knots and Crosses 177

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Rao, Raja 10

Rape 121, 122, 124, 230Ray, Sangeeta 130 n17Realism 17, 42, 60, 61, 62, 63, 77, 184, Neil

Lazarus 68, social realism 68, 83, 93,European realism 73, animist realism 76,realism and Dickens 62, 63, antirealism117, 125

Realist novel 64, 83, 190Reddy, Maureen T. 185 n16, 185 n21Reiss, Timothy J Against Autonomy: Global

Dialectics of Cultural Exchange 245 n2Reitz, Caroline 166, 167, 172, 184 n1, 185

n19Revenge (rape) 122, and tragedy 230Reynolds, G. M. W The Mysteries of London

167

Reynolds, Susan (disability and culture) 115n28

Rhodesia 102

Rhys, Jean 16, 120, 190,Wide Sargasso Sea 5,16, 31, 120, 212, 236,Wide Sargasso Seaand tragedy, 233, Voyage in the Dark 30,34 n27, 191, 206 n10

Richardson, Samuel 62Ricoeur, Paul 215Ritual 121, ritual space 201Rizal, José Noli me Tangere 133Robinson Crusoe 15, 16, 17, 63, 66Roh, Franz 72Roman à clef 125Romances 25, mythical romance 127Romantic narratives 17Romanticism 62, 215, Wordsworth and

Coleridge 72, Romantic aesthetic 161Ronen, Ruth 58 n17Ross, Jean 80 n31Roth, Gerhard Der See 181Rotimi, Ola The Gods are Not to Blame

(Oedipus Rex) 231Rownson, Susanna Charlotte Temple 19Roy, Arundhati God of Small Things 229

n84, 236Rozan, S. J. China Trade 183Rural 121, rural space 201Rushdie, Salman 7, 8, 38, 61, Chris Warnes

75, Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa 38,Gabriel García Márquez 74, RobertMarzec 83, 96 n13, “Angel Gabriel” 80n29, The Enchantress of Florence 8, Fury8, The Ground beneath Her Feet 8, Lukaand the Fire of Life 8, Haroun and theSea of Stories 8, Satanic Verses 8, 38, 75,

138, 140, 150 n23, 151 n30, 191, 199,Midnight’s Children 2, 5, 8, 37, 38, 71,72, 74, 76, 79 n4, 140, 199, 219, 223,227 n64, 239, 245, The Moor’s Last Sigh5, 8, Shalimar the Clown 8, 35, 37, 38,44, 48, Shame 8, 9, 102, 103, 104, 114n12, The Times (interview) 57 n4

Russo, Mary 130 n17Russia 44, 45, 46, 168Rwanda 106, Rwandan genocide 69Rye, Marilyn 173, 185 n24

Sachs, Wolfgang 97 n30Sadowski-Smith, Claudia 228 n73Sahgal, Nayantara Rich Like Us 66Said, Edward 3, 4, 41, 84, 213, 215, 226 n25,

226 n47, Culture and Imperialism 15,28, 33 n1, 58 n12, 96 n1, 97 n15, 208,225 n3, 225 n17, 226 n22, 226 n23, 226n24, Orientalism 79 n6 (also see“Orientalism”), The World, the Text,and the Critic 40, Patrick Brantlinger 25,Michel Foucault 210, Jane Austen’sMansfield Park 211, 223

Salih, Tayeb 236, Season of Migration to theNorth 5, 60, 236, tragedy 233

Salinger, J. D. Catcher in the Rye 6, 7Samoan writers 66Sand, George 62Sangari, Kukum 73, 80 n28Sanskrit 45Sant, Patricia 131 n28Sao Paulo 203

Sartre, Jean-Paul 225 n13, 225 n14, Algerianwar 210, colonial space 210, GeorgWilhelm Friedrich Hegel 237, FrantzFanon 237

Satire (Gary Shteyngart) 45Satyagraha, Gandhian 130 n17, Savage 22Scaffer, Kay (human rights) 80 n19Schechner, Richard 52, 58 n27Scheherazade (Arabian Nights) 71Schipper, Mineke 130 n17Schleh, Eugene 186 n27, 187 n48Schmid, David 171, 185 n10, Chester Himes

185 n13Schreiner, Olive 3, 16, 26, 27, 28, 34 n21, The

Story of an African Farm 26, 27, 118,Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy inAmerica 26

Schwartz, Henry 33 n2Sciascia, Leonardo Il giorno della civetta (The

Day of the Owl) 178

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Science fiction 46, 125, 148Scotland 16, 20, 177Scott, David 239, Conscripts of Modernity

245 n2Scott, Kim 174, Benang 77

Scott, Lawrence 132 n33, Aelred’s Sin 124,125, 132 n34

Scott, Michael 18, Tom Cringle’s Log 18Scott, Paul The Jewel on the Crown 130 n19Scott, Rebecca 129 n10Scottish writers 177Second World War 10, 38, 40, 45, 65, 67, 92,

136, 142, 184Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky 9, 116, 117, 126,

128 n1, 128 n3, 132 n36Seeley, J. R. 25, 34 n19Sekyi-Otu, Ato Fanon’s Dialectic of

Experience 237, 246 n14Selvadurai, Shyam Funny Boy 124Selvon, Sam The Lonely Londoners 32, 78,

130 n20, 135, 150 n8, 191Senegalese writers 69Sentimental novel 19Setting 24, colonial setting 32

Settlement 20, 22, 24, 26, Anglophonesettlement 21, domestic settlement 21,(un)settlement 20, 24

Settlers 20, 26, 166, Settler elites 26, non-European colonial settlers 21, 29

Sexual exploitation 31, 88, 120, sexualinterest and colonialism 118, 120

Sexuality 9, 116, 119, 123, 126, 127,Bildungsroman 119, postcolonial powerrelations 117

Shakespeare, Tom (disability studies) 114 n4Shakespeare, William 6, 233, Antony and

Cleopatra 230, 233, Hamlet 230, 233,King Lear 230, Macbeth 230, Othello 2,235, Merchant of Venice 2, The Tempest2, 127, tragedy 230

Shamsie, Kamila Burnt Shadows 70Sharpe, Jenny 129 n13, 130 n14Shelly, Mary Frankenstein 235

Shepard, Todd 225 n10Sheridan MaryAnn 176Shinde, Vivek 206 n8Shohat, Ella 210, 226 n19Shteyngart, Gary 44, 45, 58 n22, Absurdistan

36, 44, 45, Bildungsroman 47Siddiqui, Yumna 185 n6Sidhwa, Bapsi 236, Cracking India 102, 113,

114 n8, 236

Sierra Leone 28, 29, Aminatta Forna’s TheMemory of Love 70, Delia Jarret-McCaulay’ s Moses, Citizen and Me 79

Simon, Reeva Spector 187 n57Simone, Abdou Maliq 204, 207 n29, 207 n30Singapore 25Singh 212

Sinha, Indra Animal’s People 69, 92, 94, 98n40, 98 n41, 98 n42

Siskind, Mariano (magic realism) 247 n23Sivanandan Ambalavaner When Memory

Dies 65Slaughter, Joseph (human rights) 66, 79 n14Slaves 18, 21, African slaves 21, Caribbean

slaves 84, Jamaican slaves 22, Slavery 15,19, 29, slave owners 22, 23, slave-owning creoles 23, slave writers 170

Slavic 44Slemon, Stephen 72, 80 n25, 226 n27, 228

n70Slums 198, 203Smith, Alexander McCall 183, 187 n54Smith, Faith 130 n21Smith, Zadie 6, White Teeth 191, 221Snyder, Sharon 115 n34, 115 n40, “narrative

prosthesis” 102, 114 n13Soitos, Stephen F. 170, 171, 172, 185 n8, 185

n11, Blues Detective 185 n17, 185 n18Soja, Edward 213, 222, 223, 226 n25, 226

n37, Postmodern Geographies 229 n81,Thirdspace 226 n44, 229 n78, HenriLefebvre’s The Production of Space 214,226 n40, 226 n41, 226 n42, 226 n43,Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart 222

Solzhenitsyn 45

Somali writers 119Sommer, Doris 129 n13, 130 n17Soper, Kate 81, 96 n2Sophocles, Antigone 231, 232, adaptation

233, Femi Osofisan’s Tegonni 231,Oedipus Rex 243

South Africa 26, 118, 160, 162, 163, 175,apartheid 87, 106, 163, 182, 231, 232,apartheid and space 87, apartheid andtragedy 231, South African creole 27,South African writers 27, 118, 121, 127,227 n53, 227 n54, white South Africanwriters 161

Sovereignty 1, 11, 81, 87, 90, environmentalsovereignty 84

Soviet Empire 36Soviet Union 67, 79, collapse 44

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Soyinka, Wole 245, 247 n24, The Bacchae ofEuripides (The Bacchae) The Interpreters123

Space 28, 83, 96, 111, 134, 137, 172, 194,209, colonial space 3, 19, 20, 25, 32,210, 211, 216, 219, diaspora 133, 135,literary space 189, postcolonial space113, 214, 215, 221, postcolonialism 208,223, South African apartheid 87, time155, urban space 189, 195, 206, colonialspace and Frantz Fanon 210, colonialspace and Jean-Paul Sartre 210,spatial orientation 36, spatiality 11, 215,spatial segregation 88, spatial violence217

Spain 20, 21, 67, 179, Spanish-speakingpopulations 21, non-Spanish-speaking22, Spanish writing 39, Spanish crimefiction 182, Spanish America 24, SpanishSouth America 210, 211

Spencer, Robert 228 n73Spiegelman, Art 44, In the Shadow of No

Towers 52, 53, 29 n28, Maus 53, 54Spielberg, Stephen Jurassic Park 235

Spillane, Mickey 184

Spitz, Chantal L’îledes rêves écrasés 65Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 4, 225 n18,

Algerian war 210, “Can the SubalternSpeak” 225 n15, Michel Foucault 210,Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre 212

Sri Lanka 70, Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’sGhost 106, 107, 179, Sri Lankan novels61, 65, 124

Stabenow, Dana A Cold Day for Murder 177Stathaki, Aktina 231

Steel, FloraAnnieOnthe Face of theWaters118Steenkamp, Elzette 97 n16Steiner, George 230,Death of Tragedy 245 n1Stella, Regis Gutsini Posa 70

Stendhal 62Stevenson, R. L. 2Stobie, Cheryl 131 n30Stoler, Anne Laura 4, 13 n8Stratton, Florence 128 n1Strindberg 230Strum, Terry 186 n25Subaltern 100

Subjectivity 117, colonial subjectivity 213,white subjectivity 161

Sublime 152, 153, 154, 155, 157, 164,colonial sublime 162, postcolonialsublime 159, 160, 164

Subrahmanvam, Sanjay 207 n27, ChetanBhagat’s One Night @ the Call Centre202, 207 n20

Sudan 61Sudesh, Aswati 246 n5Sugars, Cynthia 228 n74Suleri, Sara 152, 164 n4Summers, Lawrence 92Surinam 19

Swedish crime fiction 184

Swiftian satire 45, 46Swinimer, Ciarunji Chesania 132 n38Swiss writers 181, 182Syrians 29Szabo-Jones, Lisa 97 n16

Tadjo, Véronique 69Taibo, Paco Ignacio II, Dias de Combate

(Days of Struggle) 179, Sombra de laSombra (Shadow of a Shadow) 179

Tally, Robert Jr. 218, 227 n61Tamil (Antigone) 233, Tamil Tigers 106Tanaka, Ken Death in Little Tokyo 183Taylor, Emily 132 n37Taylor, Philip Meadows Confessions of a

Thug 167Temple, Peter The Broken Shore 174, Truth

74

ten Kortenaar, Neil (Salman Rushdie’sMidnight’s Children) 219, 227 n65

Teraokoa, Arlene 180, 187 n43Terra nullius 26, 84, 218Terrorism 38, 43, 51, 58 n6, 174Teverson, Andrew 208, 225 n2, 226 n37Thackeray, William Vanity Fair 20Thiong'o, Ngũgĩ 8, 105, 195, 198, 220, 227

n68, Joseph Conrad 11, Patrick Williams114 n18, A Grain of Wheat 9, 121, 219,Petals of Blood 9, 68, 105, 114 n19, 120,180, 193, 194, 205, 207 n16, Wizard ofthe Crow 99, 100, 114 n1, 114 n2, Devilon the Cross 121

Thomas, Charleston 132 n34Thomas, Nigel H. Spirits in the Dark 124,

126, 131 n31Thomas, PaulOld School Tie (Dirty Laundry)

174

Thompson, E.P. 16, 33 n3Thrillers 174, spy-thrillers 184Thuy, Diem Le Thi The Gangster We Are All

Looking For 136, 139, 150 n26Tidyman, Ernest Shaft 171

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Tiffin, Helen 4, 97 n18, 208, 225 n4, 226 n26,226 n27

Time 11, colonial time 214Tinsley, Omise’eke Natasha 128 n3, 128 n4,

131 n32Tocqueville, Alexis Democracy in America

26

Toronto 175Totalitarianism 233

Tourism 81, 89, 90, 175, 196Tragedy 230, Greek tragedy 231, 239, Greek

tragic hero 233, postcolonial novel 236,South African adaptations of Greektragedies 231, tragic closure 235

Tragicomic poetics 47, 51Transgender 126Transsexuality 116, 124Trauma 52, 104, 107, 109, 122, historical 78,

Roger Luckhurst 80 n21Travel 20, 90, intra-Caribbean travels 22Trinidad 22, 24, 196, exile 24, 31Trinidadian writers 120, 124The Trojan Women 231Trumpener, Katie: 17, 18, 19, Bardic

Nationalism 16, 33 n4, 33 n6Tunisia 144Tutuola, Amos The Palm Wine Drinkard 77

Union Carbide 92United Nations 38, 137United States 7, 17, 23, 32, 45, 46, 67, 91, 99,

101, 112, 142, 171, 173, 197,postcolonialism 23, Chinese diaspora143, 144, Filipino diaspora 145, Koreandiaspora 144, 147

Updike, John 35, 37, 38, 57 n1Upfield, Arthur 185 n23, The Barrakee

Mystery 173

Upstone, Sara 208, 217, 227 n55Urbanism 83, 93, 188, 199, urbanization 10,

81, 89, 189, neocolonial urbanization195

Urry, John 82, 96 n6

Valdés, Mario J. 3, 13 n6Valens, Keja 128 n3, 128 n4, 131 n32van de Wetering, Janwillem De Ratelrat (The

Rattle-Rat) 181van Herden, Etienne Die swye van Mario

Salviati (The Long Silence of MarioSalviati) 181

Vanacker, Sabine 181, 187 n47Vanita, Ruth 129 n6, 130 n22

Vassanji, M. G In-Between World of VikramLall. 219

Vera, Yvonne 125, The Stone Virgins 70, 107,108, 113, 115 n27, 122, WithoutA Name 122, 236, Without A Name andtragedy 233

Victorian fiction 25, Victorian ideology 118

Victorian novels 24Vidocq, Eugène-FrançoisMémoires of Vidocq

167

Vienna 181Vietnam 38

Violence 7, 9, 19, 21, 27, 35, 37, 43, 44, 52,67, 68, 70, 90, 100, 104, 106, 110, 159,192, 244, disability 105, 107,environmental violence 85, politicalviolence 244, religious violence 230,spatial violence 217

Virilio, Paul 58 n25Viswanathan, Gauri 25, 33 n2, 34 n18Volpi, Jorge 39

Walcott, Derek 5, “Air”, “The Castaway”,“The Sea is History” 165 n17

Wales 177Walkowitz, Rebecca (modernism) 58 7nWar 106Warner, Michael 122, 131 n26Warnes, Chris 72, 75, 76, 80 n24, 80 n30, 80

n35, 247 n23, Salman Rushdie 75, Wales16

Watson, Nicole The Boundary 174

Watson, Tim 174, The Kadaitcha Sung 174

Watt, Ian The Rise of the Novel 17, 33 n5Watts, Michael (“liberation ecologies”) 87,

97 n25Waugh, Evelyn 3Weixlmann, Joe 131 n29Wells, Claire 185 n20Wendell, Susan 114 n4Werbner, Pnina “impossibility of arrival”

135, 137, 150 n15Wesley, Valerie Wilson When Death Comes

Stealing 172

West Indies 18, 20, 31, 172, West IndianCreole 19

Westbrook, Robert Ghost Dancer 177White 23, white hierarchy 22, 172, white

society 26, white superiority 21, 24,whiteness 173, whiteness and hegemonicidentity 101, white women 118, whitesubjectivity 161

White, Anne M. 179, 186 n39

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White, Hayden 215

White, Patrick Voss 84, 85, 86, 87, 94, 97 n17Williams, Cyrnic R. Hamel, the Obeah Man

21, 23, 33 n14, 33 n17Williams, Hywel 192, 206 n12, 206 n13Williams, Patrick (Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o) 114

n18, 114 n20Williams, Raymond The Country and the City

188, 206 n1Winston, Robert P. 175, 186 n28Winton, Tim Cloudstreet 110, 111, 115 n33,

115 n35Witnessing 77

Women 30, 91, 119, 121, 182, black women120, nature 82, 88, women writers 120,122, 126, white women and colonialism118, 122, in postcolonial novels 64, inMadame Bovary 62, in Thêrèse Raquin62, womanhood 46

Woolf, Virginia 190, The Voyage Out 16,Mrs. Dalloway 190, 206 n9

Wordsworth 161, 162, The Prelude 161,(Coleridge Lyrical Ballads) 72

World War II 28Worthington, Heather 185 n4

Wright, Alexis 98 n45, 174, 175, Carpentaria93, 94, 95, The Swan Book 95

Wright, Greg 186 n29Wynn, Catherine 185 n7Wynter, Sylvia 130 n16

Yeats, W. B. 212, 230, “The Second Coming”241

Yezierska, Anzia Bread Givers 49, 151 n60,151 n61, 151 n62, Young, Robert J.C. 4,Michel Foucault 210, 225 n16

Young, Scott Murder in a Cold Climate175

Zabus, Chantal, J. 128, 131 n30Zamora, Lois Parkinson (magic realism) 73,

80 n27Zanzibar 144Zavestiski, Stephen 98 n43Zimbabwe 7, independence 102,

Zimbabwean writers 70, 126, ZimbabwePeople’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA)107

Zola, Émile 62, Thêrèse Raquin 62

Zulu crime fiction 182

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