Table des matières

Michèle Lurdos

Introduction

Means of Transport

Wolfgang Binder

‘Where the remote Bermudas ride...’.

On exploration, Expansion, Transport(s), and Two Texts on Jamaica

• 1 Preliminary Remarks in a Historical Vein
• 2 On Discoveries and Expansions
• 3 Two Naturally Subjective English Travel Accounts to the Island of Jamaica

Bruce H. Smith

Politics and Management Issues Affecting the Nineteenth Century Colonial Railways of New Zealand

Stephen Little et Julian Hine

Changing Track: Repositioning the Irish and Australian Railways in the National Consciousness

• 1 Introduction
• 2 Ireland—Encouraging Development
• 3 Australia: Achieving a Nation-Building Agenda
• 4 Consolidation, Maturity, Decline
• 5 Conclusions: Tracking Change

Barbara Helly

AZIKWELWA! (We Will Not Ride!)

Minibus Taxis in South Africa: Political and Social History of an Anomaly

• 1 In the Beginnings, There Were Trains for Diamonds, Gold and Other Types of Ores
• 2 Bus Boycotts and First Taxis
• 3 Taxi Owners are Checked by Law but They Nonetheless Manage to Multiply.
• 4 The Coming to Power of the ANC
• 5 Towards a Greater Integration to the World Market

Forced Transport

Benaouda Lebdai

Olaudah Equiano’s ‘Interesting’ Route

Patricia Krus

Rewritings of the Middle passage in 20th Century Caribbean Literature

Olivette Otele

Seamen in Bristol and the Lure of Slaving Voyages

Rita Christian

‘They Came in Ships...’ Indo-Caribbean Women and their Construction of Safe Spaces in the Caribbean

Susan Barrett

Transporting the Last Tasmanian aborigines in Contemporary Australian Fiction

• 1 The Savage Crows
• 2 Doctor Wooreddy’s Prescription for Enduring the Ending of the World
• 3 English Passengers
• 4 Physical Transport

Teresa Gibert

Pragmatism, Ethics and Aesthetics in the Narratives of the Japanese-Canadian Displacement

Isabel Alonso-breto

Reenacting History: the Underground Railroad Live!

Travelling

Lloyd Johnson

Transportation and Travel in the Southern Backcountry: St. David’s Parish, South Carolina in Eighteenth Century British America

Florence D’Souza

The Transports of James Tod in Rajasthan

Nelly Gillet

Patricia Ledyard’s ‘Ferry Tales’: Transports around the Tongan Islands

Louise Harrington

‘The Train nation’: the Railway as a Leitmotif in South Asian literature

Evelyne Hanquart-Turner

‘The kanyakumari tales’ or an Indian Decameron: Anita’s Nair Ladies Coupé

Crossing Borders

Matt Kimmich

Lost (and found) in Translation: Crossing Borders in the Novels of Salman Rushdie

Guillaume Cingal

Transe, errance, et transhumance dans travelling with Djinns de Jamal Mahjoub

Florence Labaune-Demeule

The Magic Seeds of One’s Way in the World and The Enigma of arrival the Symbolic Meaning of Transport in V. S. Naipaul’s Later Fiction

John McLeod

Orphia in the Underground: Postcolonial London Transport

Cécile Leonard

‘To be born again, first you have to die’: Westbound Air Transports as Initiation Rites in Rushdie’s Novels

• 1 Separation from Bombay
• 2 Transition: Trial and Tribulation
• 3 The Strange Case of Saladin Chamcha
• 4 Reintegration: Writing Imaginary Homelands

Melissa Adams

Transporting possibilities: Reading Cultural Difference in Captivity Narratives

• 1 Spectators and Human Nature
• 2 Mary Rowlandson
• What will you love English-men still?
• 3 Mary Jemison
• Their tears flowed freely, and they exhibited all the signs of real mourning.
• 4 The Dangers of Transport: Romanticizing the Past
• In a little while they will go the way that their brethren have gone before.

Candace Ward

Transports of Feeling: Constructions of the Black Man of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century Colonial Literature

Bibliography

Contributors

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