Fusion of Cultures? 
E d i t e d b y P e t e r O. S t u m m e r a n d 
C h r i s t o p h e r B a I m e 
Amsterdam/Atlanta, GA 1996.XII, 332 pp. ASNEL Papers 2 
(Cross/Cultures 26) 
ISBN: 90-420-0044-9 
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he intention of this second volume of ANSEL Papers is to counter orthodox 
post-colonial emphases on "alterity", "subversion", and "counter-discourse" with 
another set of concepts: fusion, syncretism, hybridity, creolisation, cross-fertilisation, 
cross-cultural identity, diaspora. Topics covered include: gender and identity; syncretic 
aesthetics in Nigerian and South African performing arts; "hyphenated identities" 
in diasporic fiction; reversals of colonial mimcry in Uganda fiction; cultural 
reflexivity in the Victorian juvenile novel; the persistence of colonial traits in Zimbabwean 
war fiction; syncretic strategies of resistance in African prison memoirs; 
indigene life-histories and intercultural authorship; neo-essentialism in post-colonial 
critiques of the Rushdie Affair; US multiculturalism and political praxis; 
creolisation in Surinam; cultural complexities in the Caribbean epic; literary representations 
of the Haitian Revolution. Authors treated within broader frameworks 
include Margaret Atwood, R.M Ballantye, Marie-Claire Blais. Alejo Carpent.er, Roch 
Carrier, Aime Cesaire, Michelle Cliff, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Edouard Glissant, Andrew 
Hacker, Eddy L. Harris, Wilson Harris, Bessie Head, C.L.R. James, Maxine 
Hong Kingston, Jayanta Mahapatra, Paule Marshall, A;K. Mehrotra, Timothy Mo, 
Bharat, Mukherjee. Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Akik, Nyabongo, Eugene O'Neill. Molefe 
Pheto, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soy.nka, Ted Trindell, and Derek Walcott. There are 
also poems by David Woods and Afua Cooper. 
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