ABSTRACT
The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. Ecocriticism has moved beyond the paradigm of Deep Ecology, with its suspected misanthropy and has cross-pollinated with postcolonialism to encompass environmental justice and social ecology. The "Arab world" and the "European arctic" are part of the geographical and conceptual expansion needed to further criss-cross postcolonialism and environmental criticism. The postcolonial is a centrifugal force that continues to energize globalization, transnational, diaspora, area, and queer studies. In the postcolonial Mauritian Tower of Babel, there are many mismatches: for instance, "Christian religiosity" cannot be affixed to a single language as with Hindi and Hinduism on an island where Hindus, the descendants of indentured laborers from India, constitute the religious majority and the political elite.
