Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates is an advanced introduction to prominent issues in contemporary postcolonial literary studies. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing includes: ·Explorations of key contemporary topics, from ecocriticism, refugeeism, economics, faith and secularism, and gender and sexuality, to the impact of digital humanities on postcolonial studies ·Introductions to a wide range of genres, from the novel, theatre and poetry to life-writing, graphic novels, film and games · In-depth analysis of writing from many postcolonial regions, including Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and African American writing Covering Anglophone and Francophone texts and contexts, and tackling the relationship between postcolonial studies and world literature, with a glossary of key critical terms, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of contemporary postcolonial studies.
Author(s): Jenni Ramone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 376
Tags: Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Postcolonialsim
Cover
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: Postcolonial Studies Now
Part I New Contexts
2 ‘Another World Is Possible’: Radicalizing World Literature via the Postcolonial
3 The Global and the Neoliberal: Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, from Human Community to Zones of Indistinction
4 Postcolonial Economics: Literary Critiques of Inequality
5 The Postcolonial Book Market: Reading and the Local Literary Marketplace
6 Disaster, Governance and (Post)colonial Literatures
7 Postcolonial Studies in the Digital Age: An Introduction
Part II New Narratives
8 Postcolonial Poetry
9 Postcolonial Noncitizenship in Australian Theatre and Performance: Twenty-First-Century Paradigms
10 Graphic History: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
11 Postcolonial Life-Writing
12 Decolonization and Postcolonial Cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria
13 Postcolonial Gaming: An Interview with Seth Alter, creator of Neocolonialism: Ruin Everything (Subaltern Games)
Part III New Debates
14 Postcolonial Refugees, Displacement, Dispossession and Economies of Abandonment in the Capitalist World System
15 Postcolonial Sexualities and the Intelligibility of Dissidence
16 Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies: Current Debates and the Role of Literature
17 Postcolonialism and African American Literature
18 Faith, Secularism and Community in Womanist Literature from the Neocolonial Caribbean
19 Secularism in India: Principles and Policies
Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
Bibliography Compiled by Conna Ray
Index
