Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
About the Book Series
Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures.
Part of our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections, this series considers postcolonial literature alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, religion, politics, and science. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Currently the series is managed by Bahriye Kemal, Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney
Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction
1st Edition
By Rebekah Cumpsty
May 27, 2024
This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intricate negotiations between the two, codified in recent criticism as postsecularism, are fundamental conditions of globalized modernity. These concerns have been addressed in social ...
Maternal Fictions: Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction
1st Edition
By Indrani Karmakar
January 29, 2024
This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous ...
(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran: Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media
1st Edition
By Rachel Gregory Fox
September 25, 2023
This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed,...
Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution
1st Edition
By Dibyakusum Ray
September 25, 2023
How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities ...
Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World
1st Edition
Edited
By Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca
May 31, 2023
This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of ...
On Literary Attachment in South Africa: Tough Love
1st Edition
By Michael Chapman
May 31, 2023
This book reflects on the "literary" in literature. Less ideologically construed, more affirmative of literary attachment, the study adopts a style of intimacy – its "tough love" – in a correlation between the creative work and the critical act. Instead of configuring literary works to "...
Poetics and Politics of Relationality in Contemporary Australian Aboriginal Fiction
1st Edition
By Dorothee Klein
May 31, 2023
This is the first sustained study of the formal particularities of works by Bruce Pascoe, Kim Scott, Tara June Winch, and Alexis Wright. Drawing on a rich theoretical framework that includes approaches to relationality by Aboriginal thinkers, Edouard Glissant, and Jean-Luc Nancy, and recent work in...
Speaking Politically: Adorno and Postcolonial Fiction
1st Edition
By Eleni Philippou
May 31, 2023
In this monograph Theodor Adorno’s philosophy engages with postcolonial texts and authors that emerge out of situations of political extremity – apartheid South Africa, war-torn Sri Lanka, Pinochet’s dictatorship, and the Greek military junta. This book is ground-breaking in two key ways: first, it...
Narrative Performances of Mothering in South Asian Diasporic Fiction
1st Edition
By Sarah Knor
December 30, 2022
Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between diaspora studies and gender studies. It shows how discourses of diaspora benefit from re-examining their own critical relation to concepts of the maternal and the motherland. Rather...
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction: Homing the Metropole
1st Edition
By Lucinda Newns
December 13, 2021
Domestic Intersections in Contemporary Migration Fiction responds to the need for a more materialist perspective on migration by reorienting the focus on domesticity and the everyday practices of homemaking and away from a celebratory and aestheticized reading of displacement. Centering on Britain ...
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By David Attwell, Annalisa Pes, Susanna Zinato
December 13, 2021
Poetics and Politics of Shame in Postcolonial Literature provides a new and wide-ranging appraisal of shame in colonial and postcolonial literature in English. Bringing together young and established voices in postcolonial studies, these essays tackle shame and racism, shame and agency, shame and ...
Postcolonial Animalities
1st Edition
By Suvadip Sinha, Amit Baishya
December 13, 2021
Postcolonial Animalities, co-edited by Suvadip Sinha and Amit R. Baishya, brings together ten essays to consider the interfaces between "human" and "animal" and the concrete presence of animals in postcolonial cultural production. This edited collection critiques monohumanist conceptions of the "...