Postcolonial World

Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State University, USA. David D. Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California Los Angeles, USA.

‘[I]t shows how the discipline is "indispensable in assessing power, hierarchy, and differences in the humanities and the social sciences" and, with a revisionary shift in postcolonial history in the post 9/11 world, is an important interlocutor in initiating global south-south dialogue about human rights, ecocriticism, digital humanities, cartography, religious dogmatism, sexuality, and neoliberalism. . . . The Postcolonial World will be of great interest to the students and teachers of postcolonial studies, and should be part of reading lists in undergraduate/graduate courses that are geared towards deconstructing the "post" in the postcolonial, and conceptualizing planetarity as an alternative to globalization.’ - Reshmi Mukherjee: The Postcolonial World, South Asian Review, 2019

• Introduction, Jyotsna G. SinghPart 1: Affective, Postcolonial Histories1. On Postcolonial Happiness, Ananya Jahanara Kabir2. On Not Closing the Loop: Empathy, Ethics, and Transcultural Witnessing, Stef Craps3. Affective Histories and Partition Narratives in Postcolonial South Asia: Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Betrayed, Rituparna Mitra4. The Unsettled Space of Interlocking Kurdish-Jewish Identities in Samir Naqqash’s Shlomo Alkurdi, Myself and Time (2004), Amel MahmoudPart 2: Postcolonial Desires5. Queers In-between: Globalizing Sexualities, Local Resistances, Abdulhamit Arvas6. From Morality to Desire: The Role of the Westernized Woman in Post-Independence Pakistani Cinema, Sadaf Ahmad7. Queer Camouflage as Survival, Presence, and Expressive Capital in the Postcolonial Artwork of Kiam Marcelo Junio, Jan Bernabe8. Fictive Identities on a Diasporic Ethnic Stage: A "Modern Girl" Consumed in Dominican Beauty Pageants, Danny MendezPart 3: Religious Imaginings9. "Postcolonial Remains": Critical Religion, Postcolonial Theory, and Deconstructing the Secular-Religious Binary, Timothy Fitzgerald10. Gods in a Democracy: State of Nature, Postcolonial Politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas, Milinda Banerjee11. Imagining the "Muslim" Woman: Religious Movements and Constructions of Gender in the Subcontinent, Meryem ZamanPart 4: Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices12. Re-Presenting Postcolonial Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural, and Political Geographies, Garth Myers13. Transcolonial Cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi Stage Palestine in France-Algeria, Olivia Harrison14. Virtual Encounters in Postcolonial Spaces: Nollywood Movies about Mobile Telephony,