The texts that make up postcolonial print cultures are often found outside the archival catalogue, and in lesser-examined repositories such as personal collections, the streets, or appendages to established collections. This volume examines the published and unpublished writing, magazines, pamphlets, paratexts, advertisements, cartoons, radio, and street art that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders, as meditations on the futures of embryonic nation states, and as visions of new forms of equality.
The print cultures examined here are necessarily anti-institutional; they serve as a counterpoint to the colonial archive and, relatedly, to more traditional genres and text formats coming out of large-scale publishers. This means that much of the primary material analyzed in this book has not been scrutinized before. Many of these print productions articulate collective liberation projects with origins in the grassroots. They include debates around the shape of the postcolonial nation and the new state formation that necessarily draw on a diverse and contentious public sphere of opinion. Their rhetoric ranges from the reformist to the revolutionary.
Reflecting the diversity, indeed the disorderliness, of postcolonial print cultures this book covers local, national, and transnational cultures from Asia, Africa, Europe and the Americas. Its wide-ranging essays offer a nuanced and, taken together, a definitive (though that is not to say comprehensive or systematic) study of a global phenomenon: postcolonial print cultures as a distinct literary field. The chapters recover the efforts of writers, readers and publishers to produce a postcolonialism 'from below', and thereby offer a range of fresh perspectives on the meaning and history of postcolonialism.
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This Handbook advances the comparative study of print cultures significantly with its comprehensive analysis of print as a prolific, multi-genre medium throughout the colonial and postcolonial worlds. Placing the postcolony firmly at the centre of postcolonial studies, the volume also opens up fresh perspectives on world literature, visual culture, and the new media. * Aparna Dharwadker, Professor of English and Interdisciplinary Theatre Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA * This is a beautifully curated collection of essays that brings together pioneering and emerging scholars from across the discipline. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Postcolonial Print Cultures represents a major critical intervention in the field, and will surely become the standard text in this rapidly expanding area of research. * James Procter, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Newcastle University, UK *
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Reflecting the diversity of postcolonial print cultures, this book examines the cultural output that serve as the intellectual forces behind opposition to colonial orders.
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Toral Jatin Gajarawala, Neelam Srivastava, Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, and Jack
Webb
Section 1: Newspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
1. Aakriti Mandhwani, Shiv Nadar University, Communism, Congress and the
Early Cold War: A Perspective from Late 1940s Magazines
2. Laetitia Zecchini, CNRS, Paris and Boston University, Postcolonial Little
Magazines in India: Signatures of Dissent and Worldliness
3. Chana Morgenstern, University of Cambridge, A Peoples Literature of
Palestine/Israel: Socialist Realism and the Internationalist Cultural Journal
(1950s-60s)
4. Francesca Orsini, SOAS, University of London, A Magazine for Everyone:
The Ecology of Postcolonial Indian Magazines
5. Isabel Hofmeyr, New York University and University of the Witwatersrand,
The Politics of the Page: Tracking Print Culture in African Studies
6. Saronik Bosu, New York University, The Print Cultural Formations of the
Bhoodan Movement
Section 2: Publishing, Editing and Textual Production
7. Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University, Reading OkadaBooks
8. Hala Halim, New York University, A Commune of Letters; or, Anthologizing
Afro-Asian Poetry
9. Paulo Horta, New York University, The Most Secret Memory of Men: Global
South Print Culture Between Bolaño and Mbougar Sarr
10. Sara Marzagora, Kings College, London, The Emperor, the intellectuals
and the press: print culture and class formation in Ethiopia (1940s-1960s)
11. Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College and CUNY, Censorship, Disaffection,
and the Imperial Public Sphere
12. Gail Low, University of Dundee, Words and Money? Towards a Gift Economy
of Exchange
Section 3: Visual Print Cultures
13. Charles Forsdick, University of Liverpool, Graphic Histories of the
Haitian Revolution
14. Emily Hyde, Rowan University, Denis Williams at Midcentury: Global
Modernism and the Book Form
15. Binita Mehta, Manhattanville College, Graphic Memoirs: Voices of the
Other in Text and Image
16. Emily Sibley, Whitman College, Protest, Street Art, and the Archive
17. Neelam Srivastava, Newcastle University, Archive Aesthetics: Zarina
Bhimjis Poetics of Print, Sound and Vision
Section 4: Archives
18. Rochona Majumdar, University of Chicago, Film Society Journals:
Ephemeral Archives of Unrealized Futures
19. Christi Merrill, University of Michigan, The Metaphorics of Ambedkarite
Archives: Vexing modes of association in Digital Translation Works
20. Sarah Rahman Niazi, University of Westminster, Disciplining Cinema
Through Akhlaq: An Urdu Text on Early Cinematic Practice in India
21. Joseph Slaughter, Columbia University, Recirculation: Plagiarism and the
Print Life of Oral Tradition
22. Elizabeth Holt, Bard College, Resistance Literature, Occupied Palestine,
and Mao
Section 5: Literary and Political Networks
23. Supriya Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, Adda into Print: Cosmopolitan
Sociability and Literary Networks
24. Rossen Djagalov, New York University, Premature Postcolonialists: The
Afro-Asian Writers Association (19581991)
25. Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers University, Textual Solidities and
Solidarities: Namdeo Dhasal, Chandrakant Patil, and the Marathi/Hindi
Literary World
26. Jack Webb, University of Manchester, Settlement and Struggle: Caribbean
Print Cultures in Britain, 19581985
27.Christian Høgsbjerg, University of Brighton, Writers in a Common Cause?
Militant Pan-Africanist Print Culture in Imperial Britain
Afterword
28. Stephanie Newell, Yale University, The Temporalities of Postcolonial
Print
Index
Toral Jatin Gajarawala is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at New York University, USA, and the author of Untouchable Fictions: Literary Realism and the Crisis of Caste (2013). Her research areas include postcolonial theory, South Asian studies, aesthetic theory, caste and Dalit studies, the novel and narrative.
Neelam Srivastava is Professor of Postcolonial and World Literature at Newcastle University, UK. She is the co-founder of the Postcolonial Print Cultures Network, which has to date organised six international conferences. She is the author of Italian Colonialism and Resistances to Empire, 1930-1970 (2018) and has published widely on postcolonial Indian literature, anticolonial publishing, and Italian colonial/postcolonial cultures.
Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is a Visiting Professor at Ashoka University, India. She was Global Distinguished Professor of English at New York University, USA, until 2021.
Jack Webb is Research Associate in Postcolonial Print Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. He is the author of Haiti in the British Imagination, 18476-1915 (2020), which explores the early circulation of postcolonial texts in the Atlantic World, and of several articles on the history of Haiti and the British Empire. He administers the Postcolonial Print Cultures Network.
