Territorial Terrors

Contested Spaces in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing

Edited by Gerhard Stilz

Konigshausen & Neumann CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION Gerhard Stilz Territorial Terrors - Home to Cosmopolis 1

I. PRECARIOUS HOMES Ellen Dengel-Janic Contesting Private Space in Shashi Deshpande's Novels 25 Sebastian Duda Imagined Origins - Language, Space and Identity in three Novels by V.S. Naipaul 39 Delores Phillips Unmaking Home in A House for Mr. Biswas 55 Kylie Crane A Place in the Wilderness? Tim Winton's Dirt Music and Margaret Atwood's Surfacing 71

II. NATIONAL TERRITORIES, COLONIAL TERRORS Karen Rehberger Under the Magnifying Glass: Sherlock Holmes Investigating the 'Other' 89 Katrin Kuplent Contested Spaces in Mudrooroo's Novel Doctor Wooreddy's Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World 107 Ritu Saksena The Cinematic Theater of Terrorism 121

III. SUBMERGED IN THE METROPOLIS Lars Eckstein Three Ways of Looking at Illegal Immigration: Clandestine Existence in Novels by Salman Rushdie, Christopher Hope and Caryl Phillips 141 Nancy A. Comorau A City Visible but Unseen: Postcolonial London in Rushdie's The Satanic Verses 159 Kelly J.S. McGovern Burying Con O'Leary: New York Cartographies of Identity in Colum McCann's This Side of Brightness 173 IV. METROPOLITAN SPACES APPROPRIATED Lilian Chaitas Postcolonial (Re-) Visions of Toronto: Spatial Tactics of Resistance in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion 191 Johanna Roering No One Cares about Piccadilly Circus in the Ghetto: Representations of Space in Black British Pulp Fiction 213 Kathy-Ann Tan 'Caught Between Worlds': The Clash of Cultures and of Generations in the Work of Monica Ali, Jhumpa Lahiri and Zadie Smith 227 Clemens Spahr A Babel City with a Hundred Gates: Concepts of Space in Melvin Tolson's Harlem Gallery 239

V. THE GLOBAL AND THE LOCAL Susan Nurmi-Schomers Trojan T(r)opoi: The Spectre of the Cosmopolis in John Berger's Into Their Labours 263 Michael Rosenberg Aestheticizing Slum Cities: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco and the Representation of Marginalized Space 281 Dennis Hannemann Global City Turns Local Street Theater: The Dynamics of Character and Setting in Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis 295

CONTRIBUTORS 313

INDEX 317 A. Terms, Concepts, Places 317 B. Names, Titles 329