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336 BOOK REVIEWS and the dialectic of national identity and language in the Caribbean area in particular. The partial success of the collection in these respects is even more notable because the collection has been prepared and published by the Centre itself as part of its own series and not by a commercial publisher. Jopi Nyman (Joensuu) Us / Them. Translation, Transcription and Identity in Post- Colonial Literary Cultures, ed. Gordon Collier. [Cross/Cultures. Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures in English; 6]. (Amsterdam, Atlanta: Editions Rodopi, 1992). xv + 416 pages, Hb. ISBN 90-5183-394-6. Critical readers must be disobedient by nature. This is to contradict a piece of advice given by Gordon Collier, who recommends that the reader might sim ply skip the editor's introduction to Us/Them. Of course one could skip over the introductory remarks to the book, but in this case the editor's "briefing" (who considers his identity to be inscribed within the selection of the contri butions) is more than merely a rhetorical ritual. It offers important clues for easier orientation in the great variety of the texts included in the book. Seen from a viewpoint of (cultural) epistemology, the title Us/Them may convey a reductionist impression. However
Matatu – Brill
Published: Apr 26, 1997
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