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
The Future of Postcolonial Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Chantal Zabus
February 06, 2018
The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. When The Empire Writes Back first appeared in 1989, it put postcolonial cultures and their ...
What Postcolonial Theory Doesn’t Say
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy, Stuart Murray
February 05, 2018
This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations. It emerges, however, from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise: namely, that ...
Postcolonial Memoir in the Middle East: Rethinking the Liminal in Mashriqi Writing
1st Edition
By Norbert Bugeja
May 31, 2017
This book reconsiders the notion of liminality in postcolonial critical discourse today. By visiting Mashriqi writers of memoir, Bugeja offers a unique intervention in the understanding of 'in-between' and ‘threshold’ states in present-day postcolonialist thought. His analysis situates liminal ...
Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music
1st Edition
Edited
By Karima Laachir, Saeed Talajooy
May 31, 2017
This study highlights the connections between power, cultural products, resistance, and the artistic strategies through which that resistance is voiced in the Middle East. Exploring cultural displays of dissent in the form of literary works, films, and music, the collection uses the concept of '...
Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective
1st Edition
By Anna Ball
May 24, 2017
Palestinian Literature and Film in Postcolonial Feminist Perspective is the first sustained study of gender-consciousness in the Palestinian creative imagination. Drawing on concepts from postcolonial feminist theory, Ball analyses a range of literary and filmic works by major creative ...
Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature: Transnational Narratives from Joyce to Bolaño
1st Edition
By Laura Barberán Reinares
February 10, 2017
At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained ...
Fiction, Film, and Indian Popular Cinema: Salman Rushdie’s Novels and the Cinematic Imagination
1st Edition
By Florian Stadtler
July 16, 2015
This book analyses the novels of Salman Rushdie and their stylistic conventions in the context of Indian popular cinema and its role in the elaboration of the author’s arguments about post-independence postcolonial India. Focusing on different genres of Indian popular cinema, such as the ‘Social’, ...
Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature
1st Edition
Edited
By Joy Mahabir, Mariam Pirbhai
May 21, 2015
This book is the first collection on Indo-Caribbean women's writing and the first work to offer a sustained analysis of the literature from a range of theoretical and critical perspectives, such as ecocriticism, feminist, queer, post-colonial and Caribbean cultural theories. The essays not only lay...
Secularism in the Postcolonial Indian Novel: National and Cosmopolitan Narratives in English
1st Edition
By Neelam Srivastava
May 07, 2015
This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of ...
Locating Transnational Ideals
1st Edition
Edited
By Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio
April 23, 2015
This volume defines versions of the transnational in their historical and cultural specificity. By "locating," the contributors contextualize historical and contemporary understandings of the fluid term "transnational," which vary in relation to the disciplines involved. This kind of historical and...
Representing Mixed Race in Jamaica and England from the Abolition Era to the Present
1st Edition
By S. Salih
March 31, 2015
This study considers cultural representations of "brown" people in Jamaica and England alongside the determinations of race by statute from the Abolition era onwards. Through close readings of contemporary fictions and "histories," Salih probes the extent to which colonial ideologies may have been ...
Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing
1st Edition
Edited
By Rehana Ahmed, Peter Morey, Amina Yaqin
November 10, 2014
Fiction by writers of Muslim background forms one of the most diverse, vibrant and high-profile corpora of work being produced today - from the trail-blazing writing of Salman Rushdie and Hanif Kureishi, which challenged political and racial orthodoxies in the 1980s, to that of a new generation ...