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
English Writing and India, 1600-1920: Colonizing Aesthetics
1st Edition
By Pramod K. Nayar
May 16, 2014
This book explores the formations and configurations of British colonial discourse on India through a reading of prose narratives of the 1600-1920 period. Arguing that colonial discourse often relied on aesthetic devices in order to describe and assert a degree of narrative control over Indian ...
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora: Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary
1st Edition
By Vijay Mishra
May 16, 2014
The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, ...
Postcolonial Theory and Autobiography
1st Edition
By David Huddart
April 24, 2014
Cultural theory has often been criticized for covert Eurocentric and universalist tendencies. Its concepts and ideas are implicitly applicable to everyone, ironing over any individuality or cultural difference. Postcolonial theory has challenged these limitations of cultural theory, and ...
Popular Culture in the Middle East and North Africa: A Postcolonial Outlook
1st Edition
Edited
By Walid El Hamamsy, Mounira Soliman
March 19, 2014
This book explores the body and the production process of popular culture in, and on, the Middle East and North Africa, Turkey, and Iran in the first decade of the 21st century, and up to the current historical moment. Essays consider gender, racial, political, and cultural issues in film, cartoons...
Terrorism, Insurgency and Indian-English Literature, 1830-1947
1st Edition
By Alex Tickell
November 08, 2013
In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the ...
The Postcolonial Gramsci
1st Edition
Edited
By Neelam Srivastava, Baidik Bhattacharya
November 08, 2013
The importance of Antonio Gramsci’s work for postcolonial studies can hardly be exaggerated, and in this volume, contributors situate Gramsci's work in the vast and complex oeuvre of postcolonial studies. Specifically, this book endeavors to reassess the impact on postcolonial studies of the ...
Literary Radicalism in India: Gender, Nation and the Transition to Independence
1st Edition
By Priyamvada Gopal
February 13, 2013
Literary Radicalism in India situates postcolonial Indian literature in relation to the hugely influential radical literary movements initiated by the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian People's Theatre Association. In so doing, it redresses a visible historical gap in studies of ...
Writing Sri Lanka: Literature, Resistance & the Politics of Place
1st Edition
By Minoli Salgado
November 01, 2012
Focusing on ways in which cultural nationalism has influenced both the production and critical reception of texts, Salgado presents a detailed analysis of eight leading Sri Lankan writers - Michael Ondaatje, Romesh Gunasekera, Shyam Selvadurai, A. Sivanandan, Jean Arasanayagam, Carl Muller, James ...
Postcolonial Tourism: Literature, Culture, and Environment
1st Edition
By Anthony Carrigan
September 05, 2012
This book is the first literary study of postcolonial tourism. Looking at the cultural and ecological effects of mass tourism development in highly exoticized island states that are still grappling with the legacies of western colonialism, Carrigan contends that postcolonial writers not only ...
American Pacificism: Oceania in the U.S. Imagination
1st Edition
By Paul Lyons
July 11, 2012
This provocative analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century to the present, argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of ‘American Pacificism’, a theoretical framework that draws...
Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton: Power Play of Empire
1st Edition
By Ben Grant
April 10, 2012
By engaging closely with the work of Richard Francis Burton (1821-90), the iconic nineteenth-century imperial spy, explorer, anthropologist and translator, Postcolonialism, Psychoanalysis and Burton explores the White Man’s ‘imperial fantasies’, and the ways in which the many metropolitan ...
Postcolonial Nostalgias: Writing, Representation and Memory
1st Edition
By Dennis Walder
March 29, 2012
This book offers an original and informed critique of a widespread, yet often misunderstood, condition — nostalgia, a pervasive human emotion connecting people across national, historical, and personal boundaries. Walder analyses the writings of some of those entangled in the aftermath of ...