TY - BOOK ID - 8455040 TI - The future of postcolonial studies PY - 2015 SN - 9780415714266 9781315882796 9781134689941 9781134690015 9781134690084 9781138547407 PB - New York ; Abingdon : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - Globalization in literature. KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - Mondialisation dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature KW - Mondialisation dans la littérature KW - Postcolonialisme. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8455040 AB - "The Future of Postcolonial Studies celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of The Empire Writes Back by the now famous troika - Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths and Helen Tiffin. When The Empire Writes Back first appeared in 1989, it put postcolonial cultures and their post-invasion narratives on the map. This vibrant collection of fifteen chapters by both established and emerging scholars taps into this early mapping while merging these concerns with present trends which have been grouped as: comparing, converting, greening, post-queering and utopia. The postcolonial is a centrifugal force that continues to energize globalization, transnational, diaspora, area and queer studies. Spanning the colonial period from the 1860s to the present, The Future of Postcolonial Studies ventures into other postcolonies outside of the Anglophone purview. In reassessing the nation-state, language, race, religion, sexuality, the environment, and the very idea of 'the future, ' this volume reasserts the notion that postcolonial is an "anticipatory discourse" and bears testimony to the driving energy and thus the future of postcolonial studies"-- ER -