Transnational Discourses on Class, Gender, and Cultural Identity

Acknowledgments

ix Acknowledgments A deep thank you goes to J.E. Chamberlin, who is a person of immense humanity, kindness, and beautiful ideas, and from whom I have learned a great deal. A special thank you also to Linda Hutcheon for all her feedback and her taming of my sometimes overly unsettling way of writing. To Ricardo Sternberg, Julie Leblanc, and Rosemary Jolly, I also extend my gratitude. I would like to thank Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, series editor of the Purdue University Press print monograph Series of Books in Comparative Cultural Studies, for his constant support in the publication of this book. Last but not least, I thank the anonymous readers of my manuscript and the helpful comments I received to improve the book. A section of chapter 1 has been published in The Journal of African Literature and Culture 4 (2007): 101-24. under the title "Mia Couto and the Holistic Choric Self: Recreating the Broken Cosmic Order (Or: Relearning the Song that Truly Speaks . . .)" and a section of chapter 2 has been published in TRANSverse: A Comparative Studies Journal 2 (2004): 31-43 under the title "The Sterility of the Individual Ontological Search versus the Fecundity of the Relational Ontological Search in Saramago's The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis." Copyright of the above articles is released to the author. ...