The Bloomsbury introduction to postcolonial writing : new contexts, new narratives, new debates / edited by Jenni Ramone, [Nottingham Trent University].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ramone, Jenni, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism in literature.

Decolonization in literature.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 356 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

Summary:

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 and 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction: Postcolonial literary studies now / Jenni Ramone

NEW CONTEXTS. The global and the neoliberal: Indra Sinha's Animal's people, from human community to zones of indistinction / Philip Leonard

Disaster, governance and (post- )colonial literatures / Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee

The postcolonial book market: reading and the local literary marketplace / Jenni Ramone

Postcolonial economics: literary critiques of inequality / Melissa Kennedy

Postcolonial studies in the digital age: an introduction / Roopika Risam

"Another world is possible": radicalizing world literature via the postcolonial / Wendy Knepper

NEW NARRATIVES. Postcolonial poetry / Emma Bird

Postcolonial noncitizenship in Australian theatre and performance: twenty-first century paradigms / Emma Cox

Graphic history: postcolonial texts and contexts / Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji

Postcolonial life-writing / Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Decolonization and postcolonial cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria / Kerstin Knopf

NEW DEBATES. Postcolonial refugees, displacement, dispossession and economies of abandonment in the capitalist world system / Stephen Morton

Postcolonial sexualities and the intelligibility of dissidence / Humaira Saeed

Contemporary migration and diaspora studies: current debates and the role of literature / Subha Xavier

Postcolonial studies and African American literature / John Cullen Gruesser

Faith, secularism and community in womanist literature from the neocolonial Caribbean / Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado

Secularism in India: principles and policies / Manav Ratti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474240086

1474240089

9781474240079

1474240070

OCLC:

936219524