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
(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...
Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market
1st Edition
By Caroline Koegler
February 25, 2020
Critical Branding: Postcolonial Studies and the Market provides an original answer to what Sarah Brouillette has called postcolonial studies’ ‘longstanding materialist challenge’, illuminating the relationship between what is often broadly called ‘the market’ and the practice and positionality of ...
Zoë Wicomb & the Translocal: Writing Scotland & South Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Kai Easton, Derek Attridge
February 25, 2020
This is the first book on the fiction of Zoë Wicomb, a writer long at the forefront of the South African canon and whose international stature was firmly secured with the award of an inaugural Windham Campbell prize at Yale in 2013. It brings together interdisciplinary essays from the UK, USA, ...
Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
1st Edition
Edited
By Simona Bertacco
February 06, 2018
This collection gathers together a stellar group of contributors offering innovative perspectives on the issues of language and translation in postcolonial studies. In a world where bi- and multilingualism have become quite normal, this volume identifies a gap in the critical apparatus in ...
Postcolonial Custodianship: Cultural and Literary Inheritance
1st Edition
By Filippo Menozzi
February 06, 2018
This book engages with current developments in postcolonial research, exploring notions of cultural transmission, tradition and modernity, authenticity, cross-cultural aesthetics and postcolonial ethics. The author considers the ethical responsibility of the postcolonial intellectual, enhancing our...
The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism: Transnational Responses to the Siege of Beirut
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Rooney, Rita Sakr
February 06, 2018
This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics ...