1st Edition

Rerouting the Postcolonial New Directions for the New Millennium

Edited By Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, Sarah Lawson Welsh Copyright 2010
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.

    Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on:

    • new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
    • new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces
    • new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’.

    Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.

    List of editors, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, General acknowledgements, General introduction, SECTION 1 Theoretical reroutings: cosmopolitanism, transnationality and the neo-liberal subject, SECTION 2 Remapping the postcolonial: globalism, localism and diasporas, SECTION 3 Literary reroutings: ethics, aesthetics and the postcolonial canon, Index

    Biography

    Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, Sarah Lawson Welsh