Dear colleagues,
I have the pleasure to announce the publication of n° 4 of "Les  
Carnets du Cerpac".
Let me also take this opportunity to let you know you that from n°6,  
Revisiting Slave Narratives II, to be published in 2007, "Les Carnets  
du Cerpac" will rely on an international advisory board. Each paper  
will be anonymously peer-reviewed. The list of the members of the  
board is to be found on the website of the Cerpac:
http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/mambo/cerpac/index.htm
Best wishes,
Judith Misrahi-Barak
University of Montpellier III, France



« Les Carnets du Cerpac » n° 4

"Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth / Transport 
(s) dans l’Empire britannique et le Commonwealth"

Publications de l’université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier 3, 2007
510 p.
ISBN : 978-2-84269-767-9.
25 €.
<http://publications.univ-montp3.fr/transport-s-in-the-british-empire- 
and-the-commonwealth>

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Texts collected by / Textes réunis par Michèle Lurdos & Judith  
Misrahi-Barak
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« Transport » is a delightfully open word; adding an « s » to the  
original makes it even more interesting. The participants in the  
Conference which was organized on this topic by the Cerpac, early  
November 2005 at the Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier (France),  
explored several facets of the word. They started with « Means of  
transport », in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. They then  
moved to « Forced transport », which dealt with West African slaves,  
Tasmanian Aborigines, Indo-Caribbean women and Japanese-Canadians. «  
Travel » offered some gentler kind of transport, from India to South  
Carolina and the Tongan Islands. And the very same word offered a way  
of « Crossing Borders » with the symbolism in Salman Rushdie's or  
V.S. Naipaul's novels, or the transfer of mentalities in the 18th  
century. All in all, we covered a lot of ground from beginning to  
end. And now, readers, just allow yourselves to be...transported.

« Transport » est un mot d’une richesse et d’une ouverture  
étonnantes : ajouter un « s » à l’original le rend encore plus  
intéressant. Début novembre 2005, un colloque a été organisé par le  
Cerpac sur le sujet à l’université Paul-Valéry, Montpellier (France),  
et ses participants explorèrent plusieurs facettes du mot. Ils  
débutèrent par « Moyens de transport », en Australie, en Nouvelle- 
Zélande et en Afrique du Sud : puis ils passèrent à « Transport forcé  
», où il fut question des esclaves d’Afrique de l’Ouest, des  
Aborigènes de Tasmanie, des femmes caribéennes d’origine indienne, et  
des Canadiens-Japonais. « Voyage » permit de se transporter de façon  
plus douce, de l’Inde à la Caroline du Sud et aux îles Tonga. Et le  
même mot offrit l’occasion de « Traverser les frontières », qu’il  
s’agisse du symbolisme dans les romans de Salman Rushdie ou ceux de  
V.S. Naipaul, ou du transfert des mentalités au XVIIIe siècle. Au  
total, depuis le début jusqu’à la fin, un grand espace d’étude fut  
parcouru. Il ne reste plus maintenant au lecteur qu’à se laisser...  
transporter.
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CONTENTS

Michèle Lurdos: Introduction

Means of Transport

Wolfgang Binder: "`Where the remote Bermudas ride . . . '. On  
Exploration, Expansion, Transport(s), and Two Texts on Jamaica"
  Bruce H. Smith: "Politics and Management Issues Affecting the  
Nineteenth Century Colonial Railways of New Zealand"
Stephen Little, Julian Hine: "Changing Track : repositioning the  
Irish and Australian railways in the national consciousness"
  Barbara Helly: "AZIKWELWA! (We Will Not Ride !) Minibus taxis in  
South Africa: political and social history of an anomaly"

Forced Transport

Benaouda Lebdai: "Olaudah Equiano's `interesting' route"
Patricia Krus: "Rewritings of the Middle Passage in 20th century  
Caribbean literature"
Olivette Otele: "Seamen in Bristol and the Lure of Slaving Voyages"
Rita Christian: "`They Came in Ships . . . ' Indo-Caribbean Women and  
their Construction of Safe Spaces
in the Caribbean"
Susan Barrett: "Transporting the Last Tasmanian Aborigines in  
Contemporary Australian Fiction"
Teresa Gibert: "Pragmatism, Ethics and Aesthetics in the Narratives  
of the Japanese-Canadian Displacement"
Isabel Soto Garcia: "Reenacting History: The Underground Railroad Live !

Travelling

Lloyd Johnson: "Transportation and Travel in the Southern  
Backcountry: St. David's Parish, South Carolina in Eighteenth
Century British America"
Florence D'souza: "The Transports of James Tod in Rajasthan"
Nelly Gillet: "Patricia Ledyard's `Ferry Tales' : Transports around  
the Tongan Islands"
Louise Harrington: "`The Train Nation': the Railway as a Leitmotif in  
South Asian Literature"
Evelyne Hanquart-Turner: "`The kanyakumari tales' or an indian  
decameron: Anita's  nair ladies coup"

Crossing Borders

Matt Kimmich: "Lost (and Found) in Translation: Crossing Borders in  
the Novels of Salman Rushdie"
Guillaume Cingal: "Transe, errance, et transhumance dans Travelling  
with Djinns de Jamal Mahjoub"
Florence Labaune-Demeule: "The Magic Seeds of One's Way in the World  
and The Enigma of Arrival The symbolic meaning  of transport in V.S.  
Naipaul's later fiction"
John McLeod: "Orphia in the Underground: Postcolonial London Transport"
Cécile Leonard: "`To be born again, first you have to die': Westbound  
air transports as initiation rites in Rushdie's novels"
Melissa Adams: "Transporting Possibilities: Reading Cultural  
Difference in Captivity Narratives"
Candace Ward: "Transports of Feeling: Constructions of the Black Man  
of Feeling in Eighteenth-Century
Colonial Literature"

Contributors
Abstracts
Cerpac