ARIEL A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE

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2 ARIEL A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE ARIEL is published quarterly, in January, April, July, and October ARIEL is a journal devoted to the critical and scholarly study of the new and the established literatures in English around the world. It welcomes particularly articles on the relationships among the new literatures and between the new and the established literatures. It publishes a limited number of original poems in each issue. Articles should not exceed 6,000 words and should follow the second edition of the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers or The MIA Style Manual. All articles are refereed blind (authorship unattributed) by at least two readers; consequently, names of contributors should appear only on the title page of manuscripts and not as a running head on each page. Two copies of each manuscript are requested. For accepted articles, disks (in WordPerfect format, if possible) are appreciated. The editors require assurance that authors are not offering their articles concurrently elsewhere. Manuscripts are returned only when accompanied with self-addressed envelopes and Canadian stamps or International Reply Coupons. Translations should be provided for citations in languages other than French. The editors reserve the right to amend phrasing and punctuation in articles and reviews accepted for publication. While every care is taken in the handling of manuscripts, the editors will assume no responsibility in the rare event of their loss. Opinions expressed in contributions are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors, the editorial board, or the publisher. Editorial correspondence should be sent to the Editors, ARIEL, The University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N IN4 (Telephone 403: ; Facsimile 403: ; arieligacs.ucalgary.ca); orders, advertising copies, and other business matters to Mavis Page, Business Manager. Web site: Subscription rate per annum post free: Individual $21.50; Student $15.00; Institutional $31.50; Cumulative Index, , $2.00 (GST R ). Back numbers and sets on request. Claim period six months. ARIEL is indexed in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Austlit, British Humanities Index, Humanities Index, MIA International Bibliography, Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, Canadian Literary Periodical Index: A Guide to Periodicals, and Bowker International Serials Database. Abstracts of articles are published in Abstracts of English Studies. Annual index appears in the October number of ARIEL. ARIEL is sew-bound for durability. Copyright 1997 The Board of Governors, The University of Calgary ISSN Publications Mail Registration No Printed in Canada by MORRISS PRINTING COMPANY LTD., Victoria, B.C.

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5 ARIEL A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Volume 28 Number 2 April 1997 Articles Contents "Changing the Script ": R. K. Narayan and Hinduism by Ashok Bery 7 Becoming Different in the Work offanette Turner Hospital by David Callahan 23 Desire and Justification in Liam Davison's "The White Woman" by M. D. Fletcher 37 Writing Commerce and Cultural Progress in Samuel Hearne's "A Journey... to the Northern Ocean" by Kevin D. Hutchings 4g Postcolonial Nativeness: Nomadism, Cultural Memory, and the Politics of Identity in Louise Erdrich 's and Michael Dorris's "The Crown of Columbus" by Jamil Khader 81 George Lamming's "In The Castle Of My Skin ": A Modern West Indian Novel by Viney Kirpal 103 Post-Apocalyptic War Histories: Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" by Josef Pesch 1 17 Narrating History: The Reality of the Internment Camps in Anita Desai's "Baumgartner's Bombay" by Katharine Capshaw Smith 141 Empire of the Senses or a Sense of Empire? The Imaginary and the Symbolic in Kipling's "Kim" by Andre Viola 15g Poems Dead imters by G. S. Sharat Chandra 21 News by Fleda Brown Jackson 35

6 Thfre by John Allison 48 B' Pass by Pat jasper 79 Unlo Ihe Third Generation by Patjasper 80 The Exiled Roman Poet Ovid Contemplates lhe Fi'rsl Winter Slonn in Tomis on Ihe Black Sea. by Robert Cooperman 102 vagaries oj1llel1w.,y at mid-winter by Roger 'a h I 15 Belated Letter oj Thanks to Da Wang and Daughter by J. C. Ellefson 140 Persephone by james Harrison 158 To the Muse by tephen Ma similla 173 Reviews Dcclan Kiberd. Inventing Ireland: The Ulemlure oj Ihe Modem Nation. (Shyamal Bagchee) 174 Stella Algoo-Baksh. Austin C. Clarke: A Biography. (Harold Barratt) 178 Ian Macdonald and Yanda Radzik. Kyk-Over-Al4614T 50th Anniversary Issue. (Frank Birbalsingh) 179 G. R. TantCia, ed. W B. Yeats: An Antholog;y ojrerent Criticism. (Alasdair D. F. Macrae) 181 arole Boyce Davies. Black Women, Writing and Identity: Migrations oj the Subject. (Denise Decaires Narain) 183 Susan Bennett. Peifom!ing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the ContemlJomryl Past. (Martin Orkin) 186 Anne Compton. A. J. M. Smith: Canadian Metaphysical. ( eil Querengesser) I 9 Michael Coyle. Ezra PO'und, Popular Genres, and the Discourse of Culture. (Harry Vandervlist) 191 Andrew Swarbrick. Out oj Reach: The Poetry oj Philip Larkin. (Terry \ivhalen). 193 Books Received 196 Notes on Contributors 19

7 ARIEL A REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH LITERATURE Founded 1970 Founding Editor: A. NORMAN JEFFARES Editor VICTOR J. RAMRAJ Associate Editors LORNE MAC DONALD, PATRICIA SREBRNIK Reviews Editor JON KERTZER Editorial Assistants (This Issue) YAW ASANTE, MICAL MOSER Editorial Board Nancy Batty Red Deer College; Margery Fee University of British Columbia; Kelly Hewson Mount Royal College; Adrienne Kertzer University of Calgary; Marie Loughlin University of Calgary; Arun Mukherjee York University; David Oakleaf University of Calgary; Shirley Onn University of Calgary; Daphne Read University of Alberta; Aritha van Herk University of Calgary ; Asha Varadharajan Queen's University; Chris Wiseman University of Calgary. International Advisory Board Marian Arkin City University ofnew York; David Dabydeen Warwick University; Sneja Gunew University of British Columbia; Shirley Geok-lin Lim University of California (Santa Barbara); Mbulelo Mzamane University of Fort Hare; Shyamala Narayan Ranchi University; Kenneth Ramchand University of the West Indies (St. Augustine); Dieter Riemenschneider Johann Wolfgang Goethe University ; Susie Tharu Central Institute of English &? Foreign Language (India); Gillian Whitlock Griffith University; Robert Young Oxford University. ARIEL is assisted financially by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Department of English, The University of Calgarv.

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