Interdisciplinary Measures Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies

by Huggan, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781846311093
• ISBN10: 1846311098
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Not so long ago, the driving force behind postcolonial criticism was literary; increasingly, however, many have claimed that the future of postcolonial studies is interdisciplinary.Interdisciplinary Measuresthoroughly considers this alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial studies by setting up a series of conversations among these newly postcolonial disciplinesnotably geography, environmental studies, history, and anthropologyand literary studies in which the imaginative possibilities of non-Western epistemologies are brought to the fore.

Author Biography

Graham Huggan is chair of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures in the School of English at the University of Leeds, and codirector of the Leeds Institute for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.  He previously taught at Harvard University and is the author of numerous volumes, including The Postcolonial Exotic.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the anxiety of interdisciplinarity

Literature and geography

Decolonising the map: postcolonialism, poststructuralism and the cartographic connection

Unsettled settlers: reflections on the new migrant aesthetics

Postcolonialism, travel writing and the myth of wild Africa

'Greening' postcolonialism: ecocritical perspectives

Literature and History

Philomela's retold story: silence, music and the postcolonial text

A tale of two parrots: Walcott, Rhys and the uses of colonial mimicry

Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory

The uses and abuses of Ned Kelly: cultural memory in postcolonial fiction

Literature and anthropology

Anthropologists and other frauds

Maps, dreams and the presentation of ethnographic narrative

African literature and the anthropological exotic

Anthropology, (post)colonialism and the magic of mimesis

Afterword

Notes and bibliography

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