Postcolonial Studies across the Disciplines

Jana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier are based in the English Department of Leibniz University, Hannover (Germany), where they research and lecture in British studies with a focus on (postcolonial) literatures and cultures.

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresJana Gohrisch and Ellen Grünkemeier: Introduction: Postcolonial Studies Across the DisciplinesInterdisciplinary ReflectionsTim Watson: Postcolonial Studies and Atlantic Studies: Interdisciplinary Reflections on Slavery and EmpireJessica Hemmings: Postcolonial Textiles: Negotiating DialogueMelanie Ulz: Masking the White Gaze: Towards a Postcolonial Art History of MasksAndrea Sand: From Bush Talk to Nation Language: Language Attitudes in Jamaica Before and After IndependenceJohannes Ismaiel–Wendt: Track Studies: Popular Music and Postcolonial AnalysisEllen Grünkemeier: Postcolonial Cultural Studies: Writing a Zulu Woman Back Into HistoryInterdisciplinary Atlantic StudiesTimo Müller: Postcolonial Pursuits in African American Studies: The Later Poems of Claude McKayCarl Plasa: “Mainly Storytelling and Play-Acting”: Theatricality and the Middle Passage in Barry Unsworth’s Sacred HungerHenning Marquardt: Negotiating Family Models in Jamaican Literature: Class, Race, and ReligionAnja Bandau: Transatlantic Representations of the Revolution in Saint-Domingue at the End of the Eighteenth Century and the Haitian TurnSarah Fekadu: Writing Off-Centre: Global Imagination and Modernism in the Short Fiction of Phyllis Shand AllfreyJan Hüsgen: Emancipation and Protest: Moravian Mission and the Labour Strike in St KittsSteffen Runkel: The Perspectives of African Elites on Slavery and Abolition on the Gold Coast (1860–1900): Newspapers as SourcesFrank Schulze–Engler: Fragile Modernities: History and Historiography in Contemporary African FictionCrossovers: Historiography, Fiction, CriticismMatthias Galler: Historiographic Indian English Fiction: Indira Gandhi’s Emergency Rule in Midnight’s Children, The Great Indian Novel, and A Fine BalanceCecile Sandten: Kaliyattam (The Play of God) by Jayaraj: Polymorphous and Postcolonial Poetics in an Indian Othello AdaptationDennis Mischke: Othering Otherness: Stephen Muecke’s Fictocriticism and the Cosmopolitan VisionPostcolonial Studies in Research and TeachingUrsula Kluwick: The (Inter)Disciplinarity of Postcolonial ResearchSabine Broeck: Lessons for A-Disciplinarity: Some Notes on What Happens to an Americanist When She Takes Slavery SeriouslyJanou Glencross: Postcolonial Studies as a Discipline: An External Perspective on Administrative HeadachesBrigitte Reinwald: On the Challenge of De-Provincializing the University Classroom: Teaching African History from a Postcolonial PerspectiveFrank Schulze–Engler: Studying Anglophone Literatures and Cultures in a World of Globalized Modernity: Notes on the ‘Frankfurt Experience’Elinor Jane Pohl: Postcolonial Readings in German Secondary EducationMala Panduran: Cross-Cultural Pedagogical Practices: Understanding the German ContextReinhold Wandel: Teaching India in the German EFL Classroom: Issues and ProblemsNotes on Contributors