Books in the Postcolonial Studies series

Founding Fictions of the Dutch Caribbean

Reflects on state of postcolonial signature behind stylistic refinements - a world of letters relatively dependent on West for economic and political realms, and in which language systems, aesthetic orders, and genres struggle for dominance. This book explores the significance of cultural practices related to food and sports.

Argues that Salman Rushdie's eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. This book demonstrates the extent to which literature is committed to a critical reconceptualization of history, and value systems based in the possibilities of risk, constructive doubt, and contingency.

Immigration and Contemporary British Theater: Finding a Home on the Stage analyzes how contemporary British theater has responded to post-war immigration to the United Kingdom through its depictions of home and domestic life.

Analyzes the role of place and its cultural significance in the fiction of eight contemporary Indigenous women writers. This title reveals how Indigenous people survive in a postcolonial world, heal, regain homes and rituals, and subsequently build new homes and create traditions.

Describes the production of a new and particular kind of postcolonial text and resituates the notion of literary influence in the context of postcolonial literatures. This book is suitable for courses in cultural, literary, and postcolonial studies, specifically courses in world literature, global literature, and eco-literary studies.

The re-conceptualization of South Africa as democracy in 1994 has influenced production and reception of texts in this nation and around globe. In this title, the essays explores within literary imagination and cultural production of a post-apartheid nation and its people, how trauma and violence of past are reconciled through textual strategies.

Engages Slavoj Zizek's psychoanalytic and cultural reading of politics and terror, Jacques Ranciere's concept of the partition of the sensible, Alain Badiou's ethics and politics, and Jacques Derrida's thoughts on philosophy in a time of terror in order to radically rethink politics in and through aesthetics as analogies of political subjectivity.

Indian Writers attempt to locate diasporic voices in the interstitial spaces of countless ideologies. This title provides a critical examination of dislocated diasporic subjects - those who have adjusted to the dislocation well, those who have chosen the hybrid spaces for empowerment, and, those who are dragged forcefully to various territories.

What are the aesthetic moves through which art expresses its resistance to dominance and demands for conformity? How can we define anti-colonial aesthetics? This title examines the works of James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, and Satyajit Ray for the anti-colonial arguments in their unsettled, and unsettling, aesthetics.

Starting with three landscapes viewed as threatening by the Europeans who colonized them, this book examines the ways artists, writers, and musicians distill new meaning in formerly colonized spaces through the articulation of landscapes that are homelands, not commodities.

Migrant Identities of "Creole Cosmopolitans": Transcultural Narratives of Contemporary Postcoloniality offers a wide array of narratives that complicate the rhetoric of cosmopolitanism and the related discourses of "hybridity." In addition, the collection addresses in at least two significant ways the question about "beyond postcolonialism" and the future of the discipline.

The twentieth century has witnessed rise of a large population of postcolonial intellectual migrants willingly arriving from formerly colonized countries into U K, U S, and Canada to pursue intellectual goals. This book treats the cultural reception of intellectual migrancy (particularly within America) as both an uneasy and ambiguous condition.

A Literary Map of Spain in the 21st Century is a unique scholarly publication that participates in the debates of literary researchers by exploring the linguistic and literary map of Spain in the twenty-first century. This book covers all or at least most of the sociolinguistic and literary environments of Spain.

In many ways, Robert J C Young writes, colonization from the very first carried with it the seeds of its own destruction. This title examines some ways in which Young's observation could be applied to problems of subjectivity and influence within the colonizing nations themselves, particularly eighteenth-century Britain.

Examines certain key texts of oriental literature for the strong impact that they had on English literature and for the striking manner in which they have been absorbed and appropriated into British culture. This title moves from literary orientalism to a discussion of postcolonialism and postcolonial discourse.