Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications concerns itself with developments in the field of Postcolonial Studies in the twenty-first century.
Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century: Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications concerns itself with developments in the field of Postcolonial Studies in the twenty-first century. With its global reach and its showcasing of contributors who range from Early Career Researchers to Senior Scholars from a range of disciplines, including literature, architecture, digital media, and political ecology, this is an edited collection fully committed to exploring the proliferation of the field. The volume traces the trajectory of Postcolonial Studies through three defining categories – infrastructures, literatures and applications – tracking both the theoretical underpinnings and new intersections invited by cultural products and transnational postcolonial discourse in a global reality characterised by decentralisation, new technologies, and mass migration. This volume thus has implications for various literary, anthropological, pedagogical and political contexts, and speaks to how such research might be performed, as demonstrated through case studies and reflective essays.
Acknowledgements List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Theoretical
Vitality in the Contemporary Moment Part I: Infrastructures 1: Subaltern
Ecology and Planetary Solidarity in Orijit Sens River of Stories 2:
Transcultural Humour and the City 3: Infrastructures of Memory in Post-Brexit
Northern Ireland 4: Disenchanting the Return Home in Diasporic Writing:
Infrastructural Poetics in Anna Moïs LAnnée du Cochon de Feu Part II:
Literatures 5: The Location of Transnational Postcolonialism in Afrodiasporic
Novels 6: Young Women with Sharp Knives: The Case of Oyinkan Braithwaite 7:
Decolonial Dystopia: Violence in Omar El Akkads American War 8: Water as
Cultural Memory: Elemental Resistance in Richard Flanagans Death of a River
Guide 9: The First World War, Indian Sepoys and the Ethics of Postcolonial
War Commemoration 10: Literary Form Through the New Edition of VS Naipauls
An Area of Darkness Part III: Applications 11: The bhadralok as the
Naxalite: Questioning Revolutionary Identities 12: Vigné dOcton, the
Blockhouse, and the Paradox of the Sublime 13: The Szgany are quartered:
Romani History, Representation, and Coloniality in Bram Stokers Dracula 14:
From Soft Skin to Strong Voices: Lived Experiences of Displaced Children
through Digital Storytelling 15: Freudian Slip: On the Persistence of
Colonial Prejudices in Political Ecology and Critical Physical Geography
Index
Roslyn Joy Irving is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in English Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Rachael Sumner is a senior lecturer in English at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
