The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing

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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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Notes on Contributors
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 Introduction: Postcolonial Studies Now
  6. Part I New Contexts
  7. 2 ‘Another World Is Possible’: Radicalizing World Literature via the Postcolonial
  8. 3 The Global and the Neoliberal: Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, from Human Community to Zones of Indistinction
  9. 4 Postcolonial Economics: Literary Critiques of Inequality
  10. 5 The Postcolonial Book Market: Reading and the Local Literary Marketplace
  11. 6 Disaster, Governance and (Post)colonial Literatures
  12. 7 Postcolonial Studies in the Digital Age: An Introduction
  13. Part II New Narratives
  14. 8 Postcolonial Poetry
  15. 9 Postcolonial Noncitizenship in Australian Theatre and Performance: Twenty-First-Century Paradigms
  16. 10 Graphic History: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts
  17. 11 Postcolonial Life-Writing
  18. 12 Decolonization and Postcolonial Cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria
  19. 13 Postcolonial Gaming: An Interview with Seth Alter, creator of Neocolonialism: Ruin Everything (Subaltern Games)
  20. Part III New Debates
  21. 14 Postcolonial Refugees, Displacement, Dispossession and Economies of Abandonment in the Capitalist World System
  22. 15 Postcolonial Sexualities and the Intelligibility of Dissidence
  23. 16 Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies: Current Debates and the Role of Literature
  24. 17 Postcolonialism and African American Literature
  25. 18 Faith, Secularism and Community in Womanist Literature from the Neocolonial Caribbean
  26. 19 Secularism in India: Principles and Policies
  27. Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado
  28. Bibliography Compiled by Conna Ray
  29. Index