Interdisciplinary Measures Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies

by Huggan, Graham

• ISBN13: 9781846311109
• ISBN10: 1846311101
• Format: Paperback
• 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

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Literature, Geography, Environment
Decolonizing the Map: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism and the Cartographic Connection	p. 21
Unsettled Settlers: Postcolonialism, Travelling Theory and the New Migrant Aesthetics	p. 34
Postcolonial Geography, Travel Writing and the Myth of Wild Africa	p. 49
'Greening' Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives	p. 64
Literature, Culture, Anthropology
Anthropologists and Other Frauds	p. 93
African Literature and the Anthropological Exotic	p. 106
(Post)Colonialism, Anthropology and the Magic of Mimesis	p. 130
Maps, Dreams and the Presentation of Ethnographic Narrative	p. 142
Literature, History, Memory
Philomela's Retold Story: Silence, Music and the Postcolonial Text	p. 155
Ghost Stories, Bone Flutes, Cannibal Counter-memory	p. 166
Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly	p. 182
(Not) Reading Orientalism	p. 196
Index	p. 210
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