Bloomsbury Introduction to Postcolonial Writing

Jenni Ramone is Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Studies at Nottingham Trent University, UK. She is the author of Postcolonial Theories (2011) and specialises in literature and the literary marketplace in Cuba, Nigeria, South Asia, and Black British writing.

Jenni Ramone’s collected volume is timely and brings together essays that redress the most recent accusationsleveled against the field… An excellent and stimulating resource for students, as well as for new and seasoned scholars in the humanities and social sciences.

• 1. Introduction: Postcolonial Literary Studies Now Jenni RamoneNEW CONTEXTS2. The Global and the Neoliberal: Indra Sinha’s Animal’s People, from Human Community to Zones of Indistinction Philip Leonard3. Disaster, Governance and (Post-)colonial literatures Upamanyu Pablo Mukherjee4. The Postcolonial Book Market: Reading and the local literary marketplace Jenni Ramone5. Postcolonial Economics: Literary Critiques of Inequality Melissa Kennedy6. Postcolonial Studies in the Digital Age: An Introduction Roopika Risam 7. ‘Another World is Possible’: Radicalizing World Literature via the Postcolonial Wendy KnepperNEW NARRATIVES8. Postcolonial Poetry Emma Bird9. Postcolonial Noncitizenship in Australian Theatre and Performance: Twenty-First Century Paradigms Emma Cox10. Graphic History: Postcolonial Texts and Contexts Binita Mehta and Pia Mukherji 11. Postcolonial Life-writing Jocelyn Fenton Stitt12. Decolonization and Postcolonial Cinema in Canada, Brazil, Australia and Nigeria Kerstin KnopfNEW DEBATES13. Postcolonial Refugees, Displacement, Dispossession and Economies of Abandonment in the Capitalist World System Stephen Morton14. Postcolonial Sexualities and the Intelligibility of Dissidence Humaira Saeed15. Contemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies: Current Debates and the Role of Literature Subha Xavier16. Postcolonial Studies and African American Literature John Cullen Gruesser17. Faith, Secularism and Community in Womanist Literature from the Neocolonial Caribbean Dawn Miranda Sherratt-Bado18. Secularism in India: Principles and Policies Manav RattiBibliographyIndex