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

Covering a wide range of textual forms and geographical locations, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing: New Contexts, New Narratives, New Debates is an advanced introduction to prominent issues in contemporary postcolonial literary studies. With chapters written by leading scholars in the field, The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing includes: ·Explorations of key contemporary topics, from ecocriticism, refugeeism, economics, faith and secularism, and gender and sexuality, to the impact of digital humanities on postcolonial studies ·Introductions to a wide range of genres, from the novel, theatre and poetry to life-writing, graphic novels, film and games · In-depth analysis of writing from many postcolonial regions including Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean and Latin America, and African American writing Covering Anglophone and Francophone texts and contexts, and tackling the relationship between postcolonial studies and world literature, with a glossary of key critical terms, this is an essential text for all students and scholars of contemporary postcolonial studies.

Table of Contents:
1. Introduction: Postcolonial Literary Studies Now Jenni Ramone NEW CONTEXTS 2. The Global and the Neoliberal: Indra Sinha's Animal's People, from Human Community to Zones of Indistinction Philip Leonard 3. Disaster, Governance and (Post-)colonial literatures Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee 4. The Postcolonial Book Market: Reading and the local literary marketplace Jenni Ramone 5. Postcolonial Economics: Literary Critiques of Inequality Melissa Kennedy 6. Postcolonial Studies in the Digital Age: An Introduction Roopika Risam 7. 'Another World is Possible': Radicalizing World Literature via the Postcolonial Wendy Knepper NEW NARRATIVES 8. Postcolonial Poetry Emma Bird 9. Postcolonial Noncitizenship in Australian Theatre and Performance: Twenty-First Century Paradigms Emma Cox 10. Graphic History: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji 11. Postcolonial Life-writing Jocelyn Fenton Stitt 12. Decolonization and Postcolonial Cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria Kerstin Knopf NEW DEBATES 13. Postcolonial Refugees, Displacement, Dispossession and Economies of Abandonment in the Capitalist World System Stephen Morton 14. Postcolonial Sexualities and the Intelligibility of Dissidence Humaira Saeed 15. Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies: Current Debates and the Role of Literature Subha Xavier 16. Postcolonial Studies and African American Literature John Cullen Gruesser 17. Faith, Secularism and Community in Womanist Literature from the Neocolonial Caribbean Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado 18. Secularism in India: Principles and Policies Manav Ratti Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Postcolonial Theories (2011) and specialises in literature and the literary marketplace in Cuba, Nigeria, South Asia, and Black British writing.

Review :
Jenni Ramone's collected volume is timely and brings together essays that redress the most recent accusations leveled against the field… An excellent and stimulating resource for students, as well as for new and seasoned scholars in the humanities and social sciences. In her valuable study of local literary marketplaces in former colonies, Jenni Ramone considers the ways in which local texts present reading ... Features excellent essays on gendered communal violence in India. A valuable and innovative intervention in the field of contemporary postcolonial literary studies ... Through its engagement with a range of pressing postcolonial issues, this advanced introduction, which includes a useful glossary of key critical terms, evidences the ongoing relevance, in today's world, of the postcolonial and its “narratives of resistance” (7) to (neo)colonialism; it will, accordingly, give food for thought to researchers and students, as well as to anyone interested in postcolonial studies and their multifarious subfields of scholarship. Those wishing to familiarise themselves with the new research emerging within postcolonial studies would do well to begin here. This volume showcases the exciting and innovative work being pursued by younger and more established scholars who are extending and reshaping the provenance of the 'postcolonial' in response to the new challenges and developments that have profoundly transformed the geo-political frames of enquiry since the field was first established. Tackling issues such as neoliberal globalisation, migration and refugee crises, uneven development, exclusionary and racialized state governmentalities, faith and secularism, eco-crisis, the formation of the global literary marketplace and the tension between postcolonial studies and world literature, as well as addressing hitherto relatively under-examined aspects of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, this volume is a welcome reminder that prognoses of the obsolescence of postcolonial studies have been greatly exaggerated: on this evidence, the field is in rude health. This is an exciting and valuable new contribution to contemporary postcolonial studies, offering a comprehensive overview of consolidated and emerging fields of scholarship, and covering a broad array of genres, geographical locations and authors. It will serve as a vital introduction to the field for students, but also offers a rich panoply of new material for established scholars of postcolonial studies, ranging from new readings of well-known colonial and postcolonial texts, to focused studies of current and emerging areas such as the digital humanities; neoliberalism; world literature and the graphic novel. Comprising 20 chapters and including a helpful glossary, this is essential reading for students and academics alike.