Includes bibliographical references and index.

On cultural encounters / Nicholas Birns -- Critical contexts. Postcolonialism: origins, methodologies, receptions / Shaobo Xie ; Postcolonialism: social and historical contexts / John Scheckter ; A thousand splendid suns: sanctuary and resistance / Rebecca Stuhr ; Identity and popular culture in Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Junot D�iaz's The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Ferentz Lafargue -- Critical readings. Island noises: sound imprints of the cultural encounters in Shakespeare's The tempest / Kirilka Stavreva ; Crusoe's empire / Gerd Bayer ; American or postcolonial studies?: The last of the Mohicans on the frontiers of nation, colony, and empire / Craig White ; A passage to India, national identity, and Forster's "others" / Nicole duPlessis ; The formal artistry of Richard Wright's Native son / Robert Butler ; Cultural contact, modernization, and imperialism in One hundred years of solitude / Juan E. De Castro ; In the shadow of Yeats: tradition, reaction, and renewal / Jon Curley ; Derek Walcott and the idea of postcolonial globalization / Maik Nwosu ; Representing the self: Ntozake Shange's for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf / Frank P. Fury ; The limits of culture and community in Monica Ali's Brick lane / Dave Gunning ; Obscured by history: language, culture, and conflict in Chinua Achebe's Things fall apart and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Half a yellow sun / Jonathan Highfield -- Resources. Additional works on cultural encounters ; Bibliography.