Postcolonial con-texts : writing back to the canon

Introduction - parents, bastards and orphans; Conrad's hopeless binaries - "Heart of Darkness" and post-colonial interior journeys; "On England's Desert Island Cast Away" - protean Crusoes, exiled Fridays; reclaiming ghosts, claiming ghosts - Caribbean and Canadian responses to the Brontes; turned upside down? Dickens's Australia and Peter Carey's "Jack Maggs"; encountering other selves - re-staging "The Tempest"; removing the black-face - a different "Othello" music; conclusion - narrative agency in Pauline Melville's "The Ventriloquist's Tale".