Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-09990-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures

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.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Irving, Roslyn Joy

Sumner, Rachael

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Theoretical Vitality in the Contemporary Moment Part I: Infrastructures 1: Subaltern Ecology and Planetary Solidarity in Orijit Sen’s 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 Moï’s L’Année 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 Akkad’s American War 8: Water as Cultural Memory: Elemental Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s 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 Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness Part III: Applications  11: The bhadralok as “the Naxalite”: Questioning Revolutionary Identities 12: Vigné d’Octon, the Blockhouse, and the Paradox of the Sublime 13: “The Szgany are quartered”: Romani History, Representation, and Coloniality in Bram Stoker’s 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.