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"The purpose of this anthology is to explore postcolonial literature in its most broad sense. The chapters herein are purposefully written so that a reader entirely unfamiliar with postcolonial literary traditions will be guided into this rich body of text. No one volume could ever hope to cover the deep history and worldwide impact of postcolonial literature. Moreover, with each passing year hundreds of new works by postcolonial authors or works using postcolonial theory debut. To stay up to date with the ever-growing bibliography would be Sisyphean. Yet, the chapters within this anthology and, comparatively speaking, the limited authors and publications contained within, give the reader access to the fundamental ways one should read postcolonial literature. This volume is meant to instruct. The reader need not have previous knowledge of postcolonialism. Indeed, one does not even need a prior exposure to the specific texts. This book will teach the reader. It will teach the reader how to read a postcolonial work; reading, often literally, the spaces between and outside the page. To encounter postcolonial productions is to encounter colonialism in all of its raw brutality. It is to see the lingering trauma, inherited by authors born long after the crumbling of empire. But beyond the reaction to imperialism occupying many works is the great hope of new innovation. Postcolonial writers use the ruins of the past to create stories that captivate and inspire. They give us a fresh start, grounded in historical perspectives, that change the way we view ourselves and our place in a globalized world. The greatest accomplishment of this book is in its linkage of international contributors of multiple generations. Professors and postgraduate students mix together in these pages. Each of them have a strong background and personal interest in the subject matter their chapters explore. They are here to guide the reader through each chapter, using a book, play, poem, picture, or TV episode in order to create something truly unique and novel. Whether the reader is encountering the work for the first time, or has viewed it a hundred times, by the conclusion of this volume, the reader will come away with a new understanding of postcolonialism in a way that can be applied to all their future readings. Critical Insights: Post-Colonial Literature will be global in scope, representing work from Asia, Africa and India and will include essays on authors including Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy and Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche." -- Publisher's description

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- English literature --- History and criticism.

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"The Colonial Fortune" highlights the features of a paracolonial aesthetics emanating from a significant body of contemporary Hexagonal and non-metropolitan texts. Authored by writers who are either directly involved in the debate about the colonial past and its remanence (J. M. G. Le Clézio, Paule Constant, Édouard Glissant, Tierno Monénembo, Marie NDiaye, and Leïla Sebbar) or who do not overtly manifest such concerns (Stéphane Audeguy, Marie Darrieussecq, Régis Jauffret, Pierre Michon, and Claude Simon), these works create a shared imaginary space permeated by the symbolic, rhetorical, and conceptual presence colonialism in our postcolonial era. The paracolonial describes the phenomena of revival, resurgence, remanence, and residue - in other words, the permanence of the colonial in contemporary imagination. It also addresses the re-imagining, revisiting, and recasting of the colonial in current works of literature (fiction, autobiography, and essay). The idea of the colonial fortune emerges as an interface between our era's concerns with issues of fate, economics, legacy, and debt stemming from the understudied persistence of the colonial in today's political and cultural conversation, and literature's ways of making sense of them both sensorially and sensibly.

French fiction --- Imperialism in literature. --- French literature --- History and criticism. --- African literature (French) --- Colonies in literature. --- African authors

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"Although postcolonialism has emerged as one of the most significant theoretical movements in literary and cultural studies, it has paid scant attention to the importance of trade and trade relations to debates about culture. Focusing on the past two centuries, this volume investigates the links among trade, colonialism, and forms of representation, posing the question, 'What is the historical or modern relationship between economic inequality and imperial patterns of representation and reading?' Rather than dealing exclusively with a particular industry or type of industry, the contributors take up the issue of how various economies have been represented in Aboriginal art; in literature by North American, Caribbean, Portuguese, South African, First nation's, Australian, British, and Aboriginal authors; and in a diverse range of writings that includes travel diaries, missionary texts, the findings of the Leprosy Investigation Commission, early medical accounts and media representations of HIV/AIDS. Examining trade in commodities as various as illicit drugs, liquor, bananas, tourism, adventure fiction, and modern Aboriginal art, as well as cultural exchanges in politics, medicine, and literature, the essays reflect the widespread origins of the contributors themselves, who are based throughout the English-speaking world. Taken as a whole, this book contests the commonplace view promoted by some modern economists-that trade in and of itself has a leveling effect, equalising cultures, places, and peoples-demonstrating instead the ways in which commerce has created and exacerbated differences in power."--Provided by publisher.

English literature --- Colonies in literature. --- Commerce in literature. --- Capitalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Colonies --- Commerce --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Trade --- Economics --- Business --- Transportation --- Anti-colonialism --- Colonial affairs --- Colonialism --- Neocolonialism --- Imperialism --- Non-self-governing territories --- Colonization

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"Crossing the Line examines a group of novels by white creoles -- white writers whose identities and perspectives were shaped by their experiences in Britain's Caribbean colonies. Four novels anchor the study: three anonymously published works, Montgomery; or, the West-Indian Adventurer (1812-13), Hamel, the Obeah Man (1827) and Marly; or, A Planter's Life in Jamaica (1828), and E. L. Joseph's Warner Arundell: The Adventures of a Creole (1838). Revealing the contradictions embedded in the texts' constructions of the Caribbean 'realities' they seek to dramatize, Candace Ward shows how these white creole authors gave birth to characters and enlivened settings and situations in ways that shed light on the many sociopolitical fictions that shaped life in the anglophone Atlantic" --

Plantation life in literature. --- Colonies in literature. --- Creoles --- West Indian fiction (English) --- Caribbean fiction (English) --- Racially mixed people --- English fiction --- West Indian literature (English) --- Caribbean literature (English) --- History --- History and criticism. --- West Indian authors --- West Indies --- Caribbean Area --- In literature.

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Das Handbuch bietet erstmals einen umfassenden interdisziplinären Überblick über die postkoloniale Theorie und Forschung in den Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaften. Es verbindet die Einführung in das Thema mit einer kritischen Zwischenbilanz zu diesem internationalen Forschungsfeld. Auf einen Theorieteil und die lexikalische Darstellung von postkolonialen Grundbegriffen folgen Artikel zur Literatur-, Kultur- und Mediengeschichte des Kolonialismus und Postkolonialismus in den betroffenen Kulturräumen sowie ein Anhang mit historischen Überblicken zu einzelnen Ländern und weiterführenden Informationen. Das Handbuch richtet sich an wissenschaftliche Leserinnen und Leser und bietet Ansatzpunkte für künftige Forschung, soll aber auch für Studierende und interessierte Laien eine verlässliche Basis zur Auseinandersetzung mit der europäischen Kolonialgeschichte, ihren kulturellen Resonanzen und ihrer postkolonialen Aufarbeitung in Literatur und Kultur bereitstellen.

Colonies in literature --- Colonies --- Literature, Modern --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Race in literature --- History. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- German literature --- European literature --- Themes, motives. --- Europe --- Littérature postcoloniale. --- Littérature moderne. --- Littérature européenne. --- Histoire et critique --- Thèmes, motifs --- Colonies. --- Histoire --- Littérature européenne --- Thèmes, motifs. --- Littérature moderne --- Histoire et critique. --- Histoire. --- Colonies européennes