Literature for Our Times

Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-420-3453-2
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 145, 668 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1217 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of different approaches and methodologies to ‘live together’ in a spirit of ‘convivial democracy’, these essays range widely across regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established and emerging critics demonstrate the ways in which postcolonial analysis continues to offer valuable ways of analysing the pressing issues of a globalizing world. The field of Dalit studies is added to funda¬mental interests in gender, race, and indigeneity, while the neglected site of the post¬colonial city, the rising visibility of terrorism, and the continuing importance of trauma and loss are all addressed through an analysis of particular texts. In all of these ap¬proaches, the versatility and adaptability of postcolonial theory is seen at its most energetic.

Contributors: Satish Aikant, Jeannette Armstrong, John Clement Ball, Elena Basile, Nela Bureu Ramos, Debjani Ganguly, K.A. Geetha, Henry A. Giroux, John C. Hawley, Sissy Helff, Feroza Jussawalla, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Dorothy Lane, Pamela McCallum, Sam McKegney, Michaela Moura–Koçoglu, Angelie Multani, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Stephen Ney, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mumia G. Osaaji, Marilyn Adler Papayanis, Summer Pervez, Fred Ribkoff, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Anjali Gera Roy, Frank Schulze–Engler, Paul Sharrad, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, K. Satyanarayana, Vandana Saxena, P. Sivakami, Pilar Somacarrera, Susan Spearey, Cheryl Stobie, Robert J.C. Young

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ashcroft, Bill

Mendis, Ranjini

McGonegal, Julie

Mukherjee, Arun

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Postkoloniale Literaturen in Englisch, Englische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgements, R. Mendis
Introduction: A Convivial Critical Democracy – Post-Colonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century, B. Ashcroft

The Idea of (Postcolonial) Literature: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
The Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature, F. Schulze–Engler
Global Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era, D. Ganguly
Not (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonialism, L.Z. Shlensky
Frailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times, P. Sharrad
Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K, N. Bureu Ramos

After Said: Imperial Scholarship, Race, and Ethnicity
From Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey’s Providential Orientalism, D. Sanjiv Roberts
Rebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons, S.C. Aikant

Translations and Transformations
A Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages, Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Ngugi’s Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex, J.C. Hawley
Re-membering the Dismembered: Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation, M.G. Osaaji
Scars of Language in Translation: The ‘Itchy’ Poetics of Jam Ismail, E. Basile
English in the Languages of Cultural Encounters, R.J.C. Young

Literatures of Diaspora and Migrancy
The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality?, S. Helff
Drickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Waves of Nothingness, J. Clement Ball
Bhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab, A. Gera Roy
‘Trading Places in the Promised Lands’: Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives, D. Lane
Writing as Healing: Fijindians – The Twice Banished?, K. Ivy Nandan

Gendered Bodies
To Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights, F. Jussawalla
Gendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, C. Stobie
Bearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and History, M. Adler Papayanis

Indigenous Literatures, Literatures of the Land: An Ethos for These Times
Literature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times, J. Armstrong
Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction, S. McKegney
From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior? Constructions of a Maori Tradition of Warfare, M. Moura–Koçoglu
A Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature, C. Kanaganayakam
Asia’s Christian-Latin Nation? Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines, S. Ney

Dalit Literature and Its Criticism
A Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women, K.A. Geetha
Tamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles, P. Sivakami
Categories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature, K. Satyanarayana

The City
Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally, V. Saxena & A. Multani
Streets and Transformation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and ‘Stuart’, P. McCallum

Terrorism, Trauma, Loss
Bharati Mukherjee’s ‘The Management of Grief’ and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing, F. Ribkoff
Affect and the Ethics of Reading ‘Post-Conflict’ Memoirs: Revisiting Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, S. Spearey
Literature as Arduous Conversation: Terrorism and Racial Politics in Hanif Kureishi’s Borderline, ‘My Son the Fanatic,’ and The Black Album, S. Pervez
‘Witness is what you must bear’: Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry, P. Somacarrera

Afterword
Collaterally Damaged: Youth in a Post-9/11 World, H.A. Giroux

Notes on Contributors and Editors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bill Ashcroft is a founding theorist of postcolonial studies, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, and author of sixteen books and over 150 articles and chapters. Ranjini Mendis, a past Chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), co founded the digital open-access journal Postcolonial Text in 2003 with John Willinsky, and was its Managing Editor and Associate Editor till 2013. Julie McGonegal teaches English at Laurentian University at Georgian College. She is the author of Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Reconciliation. Arun Mukherjee teaches English at York University in Toronto. She recently translated the Marathi Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Hindu.