ABSTRACT
The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine:
- Affective, Postcolonial Histories
- Postcolonial Desires
- Religious Imaginings
- Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices
- Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts
- Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities
- Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies
- Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism
The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|62 pages
Affective, Postcolonial Histories
chapter 3|18 pages
Affective Histories and Partition Narratives in Postcolonial South Asia
part II|72 pages
Postcolonial Desires
chapter 6|17 pages
Morality and Desire
chapter 8|17 pages
Fictive Identities on a Diasporic Ethnic Stage
part III|58 pages
Religious Imaginings
chapter 9|15 pages
“Postcolonial Remains”
chapter 10|22 pages
Gods in A Democracy
chapter 11|19 pages
Imagining the “Muslim” Woman
part IV|64 pages
Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices
chapter 13|17 pages
Transcolonial Cartographies
chapter 14|14 pages
Virtual Encounters in Postcolonial Spaces
chapter 15|15 pages
Curio Fever
part V|54 pages
Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts
chapter 17|17 pages
“Always on Top”?
part VI|50 pages
Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities
chapter 21|14 pages
If Fanon Had Had Facebook
part VII|66 pages
Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies
chapter 22|17 pages
“Ill Fares the Land”
chapter 24|14 pages
Rethinking Postcolonial Resistance in Niger-Delta Literature
part VIII|90 pages
Postcolonialism Versus Neoliberalism