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Writers in East-West Encounter

New Cultural Bearings

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction

    • Guy Amirthanayagam
    Pages 1-9
  3. Buddhist Meditation and Poetic Spontaneity

    • Allen Ginsberg
    Pages 10-31
  4. My Fiction and the Aboriginal

    • Tom Keneally
    Pages 32-45
  5. The Centre and the Periphery

    • Kenzaburo ÅŒe
    Pages 46-50
  6. Whoring After English Gods

    • R. Parthasarathy
    Pages 64-84
  7. Departures and Returns

    • Janet Frame
    Pages 85-94
  8. The Man-Eater of Malgudi

    • R. K. Narayan
    Pages 95-99
  9. Parables and Commonplaces

    • A. K. Ramanujan
    Pages 138-149
  10. Towards a New Oceania

    • Albert Wendt
    Pages 202-215
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 216-218

Editors and Affiliations

  • East-West Center, Honolulu, USA

    Guy Amirthanayagam

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