Commonwealth literature & writers
Articles
- Scholars Discover the Commonwealth Literatures
The increased attention to the literature of the Commonwealth countries owes something to the search of literary scholars for subjects less encrusted with critical and…
1 June 1964 - Review of A Manifold Voice: Studies in Commonwealth Literature by William Walsh; and Literature in Action: Studies in Continental and Commonwealth Society by M.C. Bradbrook
The concept of 'world' or 'Commonwealth' literature has been seized on several times recently as a solution to the chronic problem of stitching separate patches…
1 October 1973 - Review of Commonwealth Literature, edited by John Press, and The Journal of Commonwealth Literature, edited by Arthur Ravenscroft
In speaking up for the merits of Commonwealth literature as a new field of study its proponents, as those of virtually any rising subject, need…
1 June 1966 - Review of The Writer's Sense of the Past, edited by Kirpal Singh; and Australian/Canadian Literatures in English: Comparative Perspectives, edited by Russell McDougall and Gillian Whitlock
Commonwealth literature, as an area of study, is riddled with contradictions that have made it an easy target for those schools of literary criticism which…
1 October 1989 - Review of Resistance and Reconciliation: Writing in the Commonwealth, edited by Bruce Bennett, Susan Cowan, Jacqueline Lo, Satendra Nandan, and Jen Webb
The triennial conferences of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS) are always huge affairs. The twelfth ACLALS conference, held in Canberra in…
1 October 2003