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First Impression of 400 copies. Contents: J.M. Coetzee: The Novel in Africa; Shankar Raman: Money, Gender and Colonialism in John Donne's Elegies; Tadeusz Rachwal: The Pumpkins of Jamaica: On Labour, Cultivation and Culture; Helen Tiffin: "White Men Read Books; We Hunt for Heads Instead": Head-Trading in Borneo; Johan van Wyk: "A Custom He Did Not Sanction": Texts by Ivory Traders, Isaacs and Fynn, in the Shaka Period; Ampie Coetzee: "... by Permission of the Honourable Governor Only to Shoot Elephants" (Jacobus Coetzee, July 1760); Gerhard Stilz: Buds or Leaves? The Moral and Aesthetic Dialectics of South Asian Tea Plantations in Colonial and Postcolonial Writing; Elmar Lehmann: "Dost Sometimes Counsel Take - and Sometimes Tea"; Erhard Reckwitz: Tea and the Two Colonial Triangles: Timothy Mo's 'An Insular Possession'; Michael Green: Preposterous Silence: Metaphor and Materiality in Daphne Rooke's 'Ratoons'; Lucia Vennarini: "Sugar in Your Tea?": Apocalyptic Visions of the Future on a Natal Sugar Farm: John Conyngham's 'The Arrowing of the Cane'; Mala Pandurang: The East African Asian 'Dukawallah' and Narratives of Self-Discovery; Noel Elizabeth Currie: "Trading in Fiction"; Or, Wilderness and the Construction of Canada: The Case of John Richardson's 'Wacousta'; Diana Brydon: Postcolonial Gothic: Ghosts, Iron and Salt in Dionne Brand's 'At the Full and Change of the Moon'; Barbara Godard: Deterritorializing Strategies: Nourbese Philip as Caucasianist Ethnographer