The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates

by Ramone, Jenni

• ISBN13: 9781474240079
• ISBN10: 1474240070
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2017-11-16
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Covering a wide range of media and geographical regions, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Studies is the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to contemporary postcolonial literary studies available.

With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Studies includes:

·Introductions to key contemporary topics, from ecocriticism, diaspora studies and gender and sexuality to the impact of digital humanities on postcolonial studies
·Guides to a wide range of genres, from literature, theatre and poetry to life-writing, graphic novels, film and games
·Case study readings of texts for a wide range of postcolonial regions, from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America to African American and Black British writing

With guides to further reading throughout and a full glossary of key critical terms, this is an essential guide for all students of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Author Biography

Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Postcolonial Theories (2011).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Postcolonial Literary Studies Now (Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
Part I: New Contexts
2. Neo-colonialism: The Global and the Neoliberal (Phil Leonard, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
3. Postcolonial Ecocriticism and Disaster (Pablo Mukherjee, University of Warwick, UK)
4. The Postcolonial Book Market (Jenni Ramone, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
5. Postcolonial Economics (Melissa Kennedy, University of Vienna, Austria)
6. Dalit Literature (Nicole Thiara, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
7. Postcolonialism and the Digital Humanities (Roopika Risam, Salem State University, USA)
Part II: New Narratives
8. Postcolonial Cinema (Stefanie van der Peer, University of Stirling, UK)
9. Postcolonial Poetry (Emma Bird, University of Warwick, UK),
10. Postcolonial Life-writing (Jocelyn Stitt, University of Michigan, USA)
11. Postcolonial Theatre (Emma Cox, Royal Holloway University of London, UK)
12. Postcolonial Graphic Fiction (Pia Mukherji, City University of New York, USA, and Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College, USA)
13. Postcolonial Gaming (Seth Alter, Subaltern Games, USA)
Part III: New Debates
14. Postcolonial Literature as World Literature (Wendy Knepper, Brunel University, UK)
15. The Postcolony and Bare Life (Stephen Morton, Southampton University, UK)
16. Postcolonial Sexualities (Humaira Saeed, Nottingham Trent University, UK)
17. 'Black' Magic in the Neocolonial Caribbean: Folk Practice as Diasporic Resistance (Dawn Sherratt-Bado, Edinburgh University, UK)
18. Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary Postcolonial Contexts (Subha Xavier, Emory University, USA)
19. Postcolonial Studies and African American Literature (John Cullen Gruesser, Kean University, USA)
Glossary
Contributors' list
Bibliography
Index