Issue XI/2 – Autumn 2002

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Cover: ‘Ellen Craft, The Fugitive Slave’, from the frontispiece to Wiliam Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (London, 1860)

Contents
ESSE Matters
The President’s Column
Adolphe Haberer 2
From the Treasurer
Lachlan Mackenzie 4
Secretary’s Column: Summa cum laude
Hortensia Pârlog 6
ESSE-7 ZARAGOZA
7
Editorial
Martin A. Kayman 10
ESSE Bursaries
12
‘Black British’ Writing
Black British Writing and Literary History
Lynn Innes 13
‘The Challenge of ‘Black British’
Gail Low 17
Black British Travel Literature
Ulla Rahbek 22
Studying the Book
English Studies and the History of the Book
Bill Bell 27
From Bibliography to Book Studies
Adriaan van der Weel 34
Translating
Translating Petrarch
Anthony Mortimer 38
English as a Lingua Franca for Europe
Brian McCluskey 40
Translating from Welsh into English
Angharad Price 46
Articles
Historical Perspectives on Text, Discourse and Pragmatics
Ruth Carroll & Janne Skaffari 48
The Spatial Politics of Partition Literature
Antonis Balasopoulos 53
English: How Not to Teach It
Roy Harris 57
Pavanne for a Defunct Hotel
Massimo Bacigalupo 62
Centres & Projects
EASA
Anne Holden Rønning 65
Book Studies at Leiden University
Adriaan van der Weel 66
CHB, Edinburgh
Bill Bell 67
YESS-Net
Tekla Mecsnóber 68
Computer Corner
Listings
Adam Piette 71
National Association Websites
Martin A. Kayman 73
HUMBUL
Randolphe Metcalfe 74
Reports
Embracing the Other
Haike Frank & Jochen Petzold 75
The Periphery Viewing the Centre
Peter Vernon 77
9th EGG School
Natasa Milicevic 78
Review
Yet another English Reference Grammar…
Mario Brdar 79
Listings
EJES: Table of Contents, Volumes 4-5
83
Conference Announcements
85
Journals
92