Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures

Toral Jatin Gajarawala is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA, and the author of Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste (2013). Her research areas include postcolonial theory, South Asian studies, aesthetic theory, caste and Dalit studies, the novel and narrative.Neelam Srivastava is Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the co-founder of the Postcolonial Print Cultures Network, which has to date organised six international conferences. She is the author of Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970 (2018) and has published widely on postcolonial Indian literature, anticolonial publishing, and Italian colonial/postcolonial cultures.Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, India. She was Global Distinguished Professor of English at New York University, USA, until 2021.Jack Webb is Research Associate in Postcolonial Print Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Haiti in the British Imagination, 18476-1915 (2020), which explores the early circulation of postcolonial texts in the Atlantic World, and of several articles on the history of Haiti and the British Empire. He administers the Postcolonial Print Cultures Network.

This very rich handbook demonstrates how vibrant the field of postcolonial print culture studies is. Following scholars such as Karin Barber and Stephanie Newell, this network focuses on local texts, little-known archives, and erased trajectories to reconfigure global intellectual cartographies—an endeavor that is highly stimulating.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionToral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, and Jack WebbSection 1: Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals1. Aakriti Mandhwani, Shiv Nadar University, “Communism, Congress and the Early Cold War: A Perspective from Late 1940s Magazines”2. Laetitia Zecchini, CNRS, Paris and Boston University, “Postcolonial Little Magazines in India: ‘Signatures of Dissent’ and Worldliness” 3. Chana Morgenstern, University of Cambridge, “A People’s Literature of Palestine/Israel: Socialist Realism and the Internationalist Cultural Journal (1950s-60s)”4. Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London, “A Magazine for Everyone: The Ecology of Postcolonial Indian Magazines”5. Isabel Hofmeyr, New York University and University of the Witwatersrand, “The Politics of the Page: Tracking Print Culture in African Studies”6. Saronik Bosu, New York University, “The Print Cultural Formations of the Bhoodan Movement” Section 2: Publishing, Editing and Textual Production7. Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, “Reading OkadaBooks” 8. Hala Halim, New York University, “A Commune of Letters; or, Anthologizing Afro-Asian Poetry”9. Paulo Horta, New York University, “‘The Most Secret Memory of Men’: Global South Print Culture Between Bolaño and Mbougar Sarr”10. Sara Marzagora, King’s College, London, “The Emperor, the intellectuals and the press: print culture and class formation in Ethiopia (1940s-1960s)”11. Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College and CUNY, “Censorship, Disaffection, and the Imperial Public Sphere”12. Gail Low, University of Dundee, “Words and Money? Towards a Gift Economy of Exchange”Section 3: Visual Print Cultures13. Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, “Graphic Histories of the Haitian Revolution”14. Emily Hyde, Rowan University, “Denis Williams at Midcentury: Global Modernism and the Book Form”15. Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College, “Graphic Memoirs: Voices of the ‘Other’ in Text and Image”16. Emily Sibley, Whitman College, “Protest, Street Art, and the Archive”17. Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, “Archive Aesthetics: Zarina Bhimji’s Poetics of Print, Sound and Vision”Section 4: Archives18. Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago, “Film Society Journals: Ephemeral Archives of Unrealized Futures”19. Christi Merrill, University of Michigan, “The Metaphorics of Ambedkarite Archives: Vexing ‘modes of association’ in Digital Translation Works”20. Sarah Rahman Niazi, University of Westminster, “Disciplining Cinema Through Akhlaq: An Urdu Text on Early Cinematic Practice in India” 21. Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University, “Recirculation: Plagiarism and the Print Life of Oral Tradition”22. Elizabeth Holt, Bard College, “Resistance Literature, Occupied Palestine, and Mao”Section 5: Literary and Political Networks23. Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, “Adda into Print: Cosmopolitan Sociability and Literary Networks”24. Rossen Djagalov, New York University, “Premature Postcolonialists: The Afro-Asian Writers Association (1958–1991)”25. Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University, “Textual Solidities and Solidarities: Namdeo Dhasal, Chandrakant Patil, and the Marathi/Hindi Literary World”26. Jack Webb, University of Manchester, “Settlement and Struggle: Caribbean Print Cultures in Britain, 1958–1985”27.Christian Høgsbjerg, University of Brighton, “‘Writers in a Common Cause’? Militant Pan-Africanist Print Culture in Imperial Britain”Afterword28. Stephanie Newell, Yale University, “The Temporalities of Postcolonial Print”Index