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
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
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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, ...
Postcolonial Urban Outcasts: City Margins in South Asian Literature
1st Edition
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By Madhurima Chakraborty, Umme Al-wazedi
December 10, 2019
Extending current scholarship on South Asian Urban and Literary Studies, this volume examines the role of the discontents of the South Asian city. The collection investigates how South Asian literature and literature about South Asia attends to urban margins, regardless of whether the definition of...
Sexuality, Gender and Nationalism in Caribbean Literature
1st Edition
By Kate Houlden
December 10, 2019
This book is the first to focus exclusively on issues of gender and sexuality in a range of post-war novels from the Anglophone Caribbean. Concentrating on the 1950s to the mid 1970s, it highlights the period's diversity of sexual concerns. New readings of seminal figures like Samuel Selvon and ...
Olive Schreiner and African Modernism: Allegory, Empire and Postcolonial Writing
1st Edition
By Jade Munslow Ong
July 29, 2019
This book works across established categories of modernism and postcolonialism in order to radically revise the periods, places, and topics traditionally associated with anti-colonialism and aesthetic experimentation in African literature. The book is the first account of Olive Schreiner as a ...
Language and Translation in Postcolonial Literatures: Multilingual Contexts, Translational Texts
1st Edition
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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
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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 ...
The Future of Postcolonial Studies
1st Edition
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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
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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
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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 '...