Literature for Our Times

Bill Ashcroft is a founding theorist of postcolonial studies, co-author of The Empire Writes Back, and author of sixteen books and over 150 articles and chapters. Ranjini Mendis, a past Chair of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), co founded the digital open-access journal Postcolonial Text in 2003 with John Willinsky, and was its Managing Editor and Associate Editor till 2013. Julie McGonegal teaches English at Laurentian University at Georgian College. She is the author of Imagining Justice: The Politics of Postcolonial Reconciliation. Arun Mukherjee teaches English at York University in Toronto. She recently translated the Marathi Dalit writer Sharankumar Limbale’s novel Hindu.

• Preface and Acknowledgements, R. MendisIntroduction: A Convivial Critical Democracy – Post-Colonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century, B. AshcroftThe Idea of (Postcolonial) Literature: Conceptual and Methodological IssuesThe Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature, F. Schulze–EnglerGlobal Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era, D. GangulyNot (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonialism, L.Z. ShlenskyFrailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times, P. SharradSpaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K, N. Bureu RamosAfter Said: Imperial Scholarship, Race, and EthnicityFrom Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey’s Providential Orientalism, D. Sanjiv RobertsRebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons, S.C. AikantTranslations and TransformationsA Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’oNgũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex, J.C. HawleyRe-membering the Dismembered: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation, M.G. OsaajiScars of Language in Translation: The ‘Itchy’ Poetics of Jam Ismail, E. BasileEnglish in the Languages of Cultural Encounters, R.J.C. YoungLiteratures of Diaspora and MigrancyThe Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality?, S. HelffDrickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Waves of Nothingness, J. Clement BallBhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab, A. Gera Roy‘Trading Places in the Promised Lands’: Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives, D. LaneWriting as Healing: Fijindians – The Twice Banished?, K. Ivy NandanGendered BodiesTo Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights, F. JussawallaGendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple Hibiscus, C. StobieBearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and History, M. Adler PapayanisIndigenous Literatures, Literatures of the Land: An Ethos for These TimesLiterature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times, J. ArmstrongMasculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction, S. McKegneyFrom Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior? Constructions of a Māori Tradition of Warfare, M. Moura–KoçoğluA Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature, C. KanaganayakamAsia’s Christian-Latin Nation? Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines, S. NeyDalit Literature and Its CriticismA Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women, K.A. GeethaTamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles, P. SivakamiCategories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature, K. SatyanarayanaThe CityPlotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally, V. Saxena & A. MultaniStreets and Transformation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and ‘Stuart’, P. McCallumTerrorism, Trauma, LossBharati Mukherjee’s ‘The Management of Grief’ and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing, F. RibkoffAffect and the Ethics of Reading ‘Post-Conflict’ Memoirs: Revisiting Antjie Krog’s Country of My Skull and Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families, S. SpeareyLiterature as Arduous Conversation: Terrorism and Racial Politics in Hanif Kureishi’s Borderline, ‘My Son the Fanatic,’ and The Black Album, S. Pervez‘Witness is what you must bear’: Politics in Margaret Atwood’s Poetry, P. SomacarreraAfterwordCollaterally Damaged: Youth in a Post-9/11 World, H.A. GirouxNotes on Contributors and EditorsIndex