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This book explores core issues in the emerging field of World Anglophone Studies. It shows that traditional frameworks based on the colonial and imperial legacies of English need to be revised and extended to understand the complex adaptations, iterations, and incarnations of English in the contemporary world.

English language --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Globalization.

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The postcolonial author, whether Kamila Shamsie from Pakistan, Chimamanda Adichie from Nigeria or Arundhati Roy from India, is a brand. Instantly recognizable in the literary-cultural marketplace, the postcolonial, this book argues, positions itself and influences the transnational cultural industry.Through a study of numerous postcolonial themes in emblematic authors, the book maps the making of the postcolonial celebrity. From an examination of the authenticity debate through the themes of indigeneity, subalternity and humanism the book moves to the fashioning of a postcolonial literary-ethnic chic for global consumption.

Languages and literature of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism. --- Postcolonial, globalization, literature.

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"Figueroa-Vásquez analyzes Afro-Latinx and Afro-Hispanic artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba, revealing the thematic, conceptual, and liberatory tools these artists offer when read in relation to one another"--

Caribbean literature (Spanish) --- Equatorial Guinean literature (Spanish) --- African diaspora in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Spanish literature --- Equatorial Guinean literature --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- African diaspora in literature. --- History and criticism.

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"Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. Divided into 3 main sections: Defending the Postcolonial Territory; Political Positions in Light of Unchanged Symmetries; Towards a Multidirectional Approach to the Postcolonial, the contributors look at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century." --

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Postcolonialism --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General --- postcolonialism --- political aspects --- social aspects

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World Literature and Dissent reconsiders the role of dissent in contemporary global literature. Bringing together scholars of world and postcolonial literatures, the contributors explore the aesthetics of resistance through concepts including the epistemology of ignorance, the rhetoric of innocence, the subversion of paying attention, and the radical potential of everydayness. Addressing a broad range of examples, from the Maghrebian humanist Ibn Khaldn to India's Facebook poets and examining writers such as Langston Hughes, Ben Okri, Sara Uribe, and Merle Collins, this highly relevant book reframes the field of world literature in relation to dissenting politics and aesthetic. It asks the urgent question: how critical practice might cultivate radical thought, further social justice, and value human expression?

Social conflict in literature. --- Dissenters in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Equality in literature. --- Social justice in literature. --- Aesthetics, Modern. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism. --- Modern aesthetics