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Preliminary Material -- The Commonwealth Legacy: Towards a Decentred Reading of World Literature /Frank Schulze–Engler -- Global Literary Refractions: Reading Pascale Casanova’s The World Republic of Letters in the Post-Cold War Era /Debjani Ganguly -- Not (Yet) Speaking to Each Other: The Politics of Speech in Jamaica Kincaid’s Postcolonialism /Lincoln Z. Shlensky -- Frailty and Feeling: Literature for Our Times /Paul Sharrad -- Spaces of Desire: A Pleasant Séjour in Robert Kroetsch’s The Hornbooks of Rita K /Nela Bureu Ramos -- From Indomania to Indophobia: Thomas De Quincey’s Providential Orientalism /Daniel Sanjiv Roberts -- Rebels of Empire: The Human Idiom in Ruskin Bond’s A Flight of Pigeons /Satish C. Aikant -- A Multi-Centred Globe: Translation as the Language of Languages /Ngũgĩ Wa Thiong’o -- Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow and the Edifice Complex /John C. Hawley -- Re-membering the Dismembered: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Language, Resistance, and Identity-Formation /Mumia G. Osaaji -- Scars of Language in Translation: The ‘Itchy’ Poetics of Jam Ismail /Elena Basile -- English in the Languages of Cultural Encounters /Robert J.C. Young -- The Missing Link: Transculturation, Hybridity, and/or Transculturality? /Sissy Helff -- Drickie Potter and the Annihilating Sea: Reading Jamaica Kincaid’s Waves of Nothingness /John Clement Ball -- Bhangra Boomerangs: Re-Imagining Apna Punjab /Anjali Gera Roy -- “Trading Places in the Promised Lands”: Indian Pilgrimage Paradigms in Postcolonial Travel Narratives /Dorothy Lane -- Writing as Healing: Fijiindians – The Twice Banished? /Kavita Ivy Nandan -- To Veil or Not to Veil: Muslim Women Writers Speak Their Rights /Feroza Jussawalla -- Gendered Bodies in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Purple Hibiscus /Cheryl Stobie -- Bearing Witness: Gender, Apocalypse, and History /Marilyn Adler Papayanis -- Literature of the Land: An Ethos for These Times /Jeannette Armstrong -- Masculindians: The Violence and Voyeurism of Male Sibling Relationships in Recent First-Nations Fiction /Sam Mckegney -- From Noble Savage to Brave New Warrior?: Constructions of a Māori Tradition of Warfare /Michaela Moura–Koçoğlu -- A Native Clearing Revisited: Positioning Philippine Literature /Chelva Kanaganayakam -- Asia’s Christian-Latin Nation?: Postcolonial Reconfigurations in the Literature of the Philippines /Stephen Ney -- A Dalit Among Dalits: The Angst of Tamil Dalit Women /K.A. Geetha -- Tamil Dalit Literature: Some Riddles /P. Sivakami -- Categories of Caste, Class, and Telugu Dalit Literature /K. Satyanarayana -- Plotting Hogwarts: Situating the School Ideologically and Culturally /Vandana Saxena and Angelie Multani -- Streets and Transformation in Zadie Smith’s White Teeth and “Stuart” /Pamela Mccallum -- Bharati Mukherjee’s “The Management of Grief” and the Politics of Mourning in the Aftermath of the Air India Bombing /Fred Ribkoff -- Affect 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 /Susan Spearey. Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of different approaches and methodologies to ‘live together’ in a spirit of ‘convivial democracy’, these essays range widely across regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established and emerging critics demonstrate the ways in which postcolonial analysis continues to offer valuable ways of analysing the pressing issues of a globalizing world. The field of Dalit studies is added to funda¬mental interests in gender, race, and indigeneity, while the neglected site of the post¬colonial city, the rising visibility of terrorism, and the continuing importance of trauma and loss are all addressed through an analysis of particular texts. In all of these ap¬proaches, the versatility and adaptability of postcolonial theory is seen at its most energetic. Contributors: Satish Aikant, Jeannette Armstrong, John Clement Ball, Elena Basile, Nela Bureu Ramos, Debjani Ganguly, K.A. Geetha, Henry A. Giroux, John C. Hawley, Sissy Helff, Feroza Jussawalla, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Dorothy Lane, Pamela McCallum, Sam McKegney, Michaela Moura–Koçoğlu, Angelie Multani, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Stephen Ney, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mumia G. Osaaji, Marilyn Adler Papayanis, Summer Pervez, Fred Ribkoff, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Anjali Gera Roy, Frank Schulze–Engler, Paul Sharrad, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, K. Satyanarayana, Vandana Saxena, P. Sivakami, Pilar Somacarrera, Susan Spearey, Cheryl Stobie, Robert J.C. Young
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