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

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