Literature For Our Times: Postcolonial Studies In The Twenty-first Century (cross/cultures)
by Bill Ashcroft /
2012 / English / PDF
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Literature for Our Times
Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays
on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever
gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of
different approaches and methodologies to 'live together' in a
spirit of 'convivial democracy', these essays range widely across
regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different
directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an
engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and
cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established
and emerging critics demonstrate the ways in which postcolonial
analysis continues to offer valuable ways of analysing the pressing
issues of a globalizing world. The field of Dalit studies is added
to funda¬mental interests in gender, race, and indigeneity, while
the neglected site of the post¬colonial city, the rising visibility
of terrorism, and the continuing importance of trauma and loss are
all addressed through an analysis of particular texts. In all of
these ap¬proaches, the versatility and adaptability of postcolonial
theory is seen at its most energetic. Contributors: Satish Aikant,
Jeannette Armstrong, John Clement Ball, Elena Basile, Nela Bureu
Ramos, Debjani Ganguly, K.A. Geetha, Henry A. Giroux, John C.
Hawley, Sissy Helff, Feroza Jussawalla, Chelva Kanaganayakam,
Dorothy Lane, Pamela McCallum, Sam McKegney, Michaela
Moura-Koçoğlu, Angelie Multani, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Stephen Ney,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mumia G. Osaaji, Marilyn Adler Papayanis, Summer
Pervez, Fred Ribkoff, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Anjali Gera Roy, Frank
Schulze-Engler, Paul Sharrad, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, K.
Satyanarayana, Vandana Saxena, P. Sivakami, Pilar Somacarrera,
Susan Spearey, Cheryl Stobie, Robert J.C. Young
offers the widest range of essays
on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever
gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of
different approaches and methodologies to 'live together' in a
spirit of 'convivial democracy', these essays range widely across
regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different
directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an
engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and
cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established
and emerging critics demonstrate the ways in which postcolonial
analysis continues to offer valuable ways of analysing the pressing
issues of a globalizing world. The field of Dalit studies is added
to funda¬mental interests in gender, race, and indigeneity, while
the neglected site of the post¬colonial city, the rising visibility
of terrorism, and the continuing importance of trauma and loss are
all addressed through an analysis of particular texts. In all of
these ap¬proaches, the versatility and adaptability of postcolonial
theory is seen at its most energetic. Contributors: Satish Aikant,
Jeannette Armstrong, John Clement Ball, Elena Basile, Nela Bureu
Ramos, Debjani Ganguly, K.A. Geetha, Henry A. Giroux, John C.
Hawley, Sissy Helff, Feroza Jussawalla, Chelva Kanaganayakam,
Dorothy Lane, Pamela McCallum, Sam McKegney, Michaela
Moura-Koçoğlu, Angelie Multani, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Stephen Ney,
Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mumia G. Osaaji, Marilyn Adler Papayanis, Summer
Pervez, Fred Ribkoff, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Anjali Gera Roy, Frank
Schulze-Engler, Paul Sharrad, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, K.
Satyanarayana, Vandana Saxena, P. Sivakami, Pilar Somacarrera,
Susan Spearey, Cheryl Stobie, Robert J.C. Young