Professor Ralph Crane
BA Wales, MA VicBC, PhD Tas
Head of School
School of English, Journalism and European Languages

 

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Selected List of Publications

 

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	Books Ed. Passages to Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1991. (A collection of critical essays on the works of Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.) Inventing India: A History of India in English-Language Fiction . London: Macmillan and New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala . New York: Twayne, 1992. (Twayne’s English Authors Series, no. 494). Ed. Ending the Silences: Critical Essays on the Works of Maurice Shadbolt. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1995. with Jennifer Livett. Troubled Pleasures: The Fiction of J.G. Farrell. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. Ed. Nayantara Sahgal’s India: Passion, Politics, and History. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1998. (A collection of critical essays on the works of Nayantara Sahgal.) Selected and Introduced. Selected Stories. By Maurice Shadbolt. Auckland: David Ling, 1998. Ed. J.G. Farrell: The Critical Grip. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999. (A collection of critical essays on the works of J.G. Farrell.) Ed. with Radhika Mohanram. Shifting Continents/Colliding Cultures: Diaspora Writing of the Indian Subcontinent. Amsterdam and Atlanta, GA: Rodopi (Cross/Cultures 42), 2000. (A collection of critical essays on Indian diaspora writing.) Ed. Love Besieged: A Romance of the Defence of Lucknow, by Charles E. Pearce. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003. (A scholarly edition with Introduction, maps and Explanatory Notes.) Ed. Lilamani: A Study in Possibilities, by Maud Diver. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2004. (A scholarly edition with Introduction, maps and Explanatory Notes.) Ed. with Cynthia vanden Driesen.  Diaspora: The Australasian Experience.  New Delhi: Prestige, 2005. Ed. Daughters of India, by Margaret Wilson. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007. (A scholarly edition with Introduction, maps and Explanatory Notes.) Ed. The Broken Road, by A.E.W. Mason. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2008. (A scholarly edition with Introduction, maps and Explanatory Notes.) Ed. With Anna Johnston. The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook, by Flora Annie Steel and Grace Gardiner. Oxford’s World Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. (A scholarly edition with Introduction, chronology and Explanatory Notes.)
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	Chapters in Books ‘Out of the Center: Thoughts on the Post-colonial Literatures of Australia and New Zealand.’ English Postcoloniality: Literature From Around the World. Ed. Radhika Mohanram and Gita Rajan. New York: Greenwood, 1996. 21-30. Rpt. Postcolonial Discourses: An Anthology. Ed. Gregory Castle. Oxford: Blackwells, 2001. 390-98. ‘Kicking Against the Pricks: Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain.’ Commonwealth and American Women’s Discourse: Studies in Criticism. Ed. A.L. McLeod. New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, 1996. 93-105. ‘“A Passion for History and for Truth Telling”: The Early Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa.’ The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa. Ed. Novy Kapadia and R.K. Dhawan. New Delhi: Prestige, 1996. 48-60. ‘The Shadbolt Version: An Introduction to the Work of Maurice Shadbolt.’ New Zealand Literature: Recent Trends. Ed. R.K. Singh. New Delhi: Bahri Publications, 1998. 73-81. ‘Re-placing Australia: The Trope of Displacement in Hugh Atkinson's The Pink and the Brown.’ Austral-Asian Encounters: From Literature and Women's Studies to Politics and Tourism. Ed. Cynthia Vanden-Driesen and Satendra Nandan. New Delhi: Prestige, 2001. 115-28. ‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.’ Dictionary of Literary Biography: South Asian Writing in English. Ed. Fakrul Alam. Columbia, SC: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 2003. 'The Anglo-Indian (Raj) Diaspora in Australasia.'  Diaspora: The Australasian Experience .  Ed. Cynthia vanden Driesen and Ralph Crane.  New Delhi: Prestige, 2005.  177-87. ‘Inscribing a Sikh India: An Alternative Reading of Khushwant Singh’s Train to Pakistan.’ Alternative Indias: Writing, Nation and Communalism. Ed. Peter Morey and Alex Tickell. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. 181-96. ‘A Man from Elsewhere: The Liminal Presence of Liverpool in the Fiction of J. G. Farrell’, Writing Liverpool: Essays and Interviews, Ed. Michael Murphy and Deryn Rees-Jones. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2007. 88-104. with Anna Johnston.  ‘Flora Annie Steel in the Punjab’, Writing, Travel, and Empire: In the Margins of Anthropology. Ed. Peter Hulme and Russell McDougall. London, I.B. Tauris, 2007. 71-95. ‘A Raj Connection: Anglo-Indian Fiction in Australia.’ Reading Down Under: Australian Literary Studies Reader. Ed. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSS Publications, 2008. 386-95. with Anna Johnston. ‘Administering Domestic Space: Flora Annie Steel’s The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook.’ Empire Calling: Administering Colonial Spaces in Australasia and India. Ed. Ralph Crane, Anna Johnston, and C. Vijayasree. Hyderabad: Foundation, 2010. Forthcoming. ‘“Amid the Alien Corn”: British India as Human Island.’ Islanded Identities: Constructions of Postcolonial Cultural Insularity. Ed. Maeve McCusker and Anthony Soares. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. Forthcoming.
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	Essays in Reference Books Over 40 essays on various authors and their work in: Contemporary Novelists The Encyclopaedia of Post-colonial Literatures in English Reference Guide to Short Fiction Reader’s Guide to Literature in English Reader’s Guide to Women’s Studies The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature Encyclopedia of the Novel Encyclopedia of Life Writing The Literary Encyclopedia and Literary Dictionary (on-line) The Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction
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	Articles in Journals ‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: A Checklist of Primary and Secondary Sources.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 20.1 (1985): 171-203. ‘Ruth Prawer Jhabvala’s Sky: Escape From the Heat and Dust?’ Span 24 (1987): 178-89. ‘A Sheep in Lion’s Clothing: A Note on The Far Pavilions and Kim.’ Kipling Journal 64 (1990): 31-2. ‘Tickling History: Maurice Shadbolt and the New Zealand Wars.’ Journal of New Zealand Literature 9 (1991): 59-70. ‘Letters of Sir William Jones in the Dunedin Public Library.’ Notes and Queries 39.1 (1992): 66-67. ‘J.G. Farrell: An Annotated Bibliography.’ Eire-Ireland 28.1 (1993): 132-48. ‘Of Shattered Pots and Sinkholes: (Female) Identity in Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine.’ Span 36.i (1993): 122-30. with June Ellis. ‘Re-writing the Maps: the New Zealand Short Story, 1990.’ Journal of New Zealand Literature 12 (1994): 55-66. ‘“Oft of one wide expanse have I been told”: An Evaluation of the Criticism of R.K. Narayan’s Works.’ Littcrit 22.1 (1996): 69-83. ‘The Shadbolt Version: An Introduction to the Work of Maurice Shadbolt.’ Creative Forum 11.1-2 (1998): 73-81. ‘J.G. Farrell, an Australian’: or, The Trope of Australia in the Fiction of J.G. Farrell.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 34.2 (1999): 47-60. ‘Duelling with the Crown: Literature and Language in Shashi Tharoor’s The Great Indian Novel.’ Wasafiri 33 (2001): 58-61. ‘“Pussimodo,” A previously unpublished story by J.G. Farrell, Introduced by Ralph Crane.’ Fortnight (Ireland) 391 (January 2001): 35-36. ‘Playing the White Man: Ronald Merrick, Whiteness, and Erotic Triangles in Paul Scott’s Raj Quartet.’ Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39.1 (2004): 19-28. ‘After Beckett: The Influence of Samuel Beckett on the Fiction of J.G. Farrell.’ New Hibernia Review 9.1 (2005): 109-16. ‘Critics and Crucible: An Australian Novel in Anglo-Indian Clothing, Hugh Atkinson's The Pink and the Brown.’ Antipodes, 21.2 (2007): 103-09. ‘Contesting the Can(n)on: Revisiting Kim in I. Allan Sealy’s The Trotter-Nama.’ Journal of Postcolonial Writing 44.2 (2008): 151-58. with Radhika Mohanram. ‘The Iconography of Gender: the Indian Uprising of 1857.’ Feminist Studies in English Literature 16.2 (2008): 5-30.
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