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Literature for Our Times offers the widest range of essays on present and future directions in postcolonial studies ever gathered together in one volume. Demonstrating the capacity of different approaches and methodologies to ‘live together’ in a spirit of ‘convivial democracy’, these essays range widely across regions, genres, and themes to suggest the many different directions in which the field is moving. Beginning with an engagement with global concerns such as world literatures and cosmopolitanism, translation, diaspora and migrancy, established and emerging critics demonstrate the ways in which postcolonial analysis continues to offer valuable ways of analysing the pressing issues of a globalizing world. The field of Dalit studies is added to funda¬mental interests in gender, race, and indigeneity, while the neglected site of the post¬colonial city, the rising visibility of terrorism, and the continuing importance of trauma and loss are all addressed through an analysis of particular texts. In all of these ap¬proaches, the versatility and adaptability of postcolonial theory is seen at its most energetic. Contributors: Satish Aikant, Jeannette Armstrong, John Clement Ball, Elena Basile, Nela Bureu Ramos, Debjani Ganguly, K.A. Geetha, Henry A. Giroux, John C. Hawley, Sissy Helff, Feroza Jussawalla, Chelva Kanaganayakam, Dorothy Lane, Pamela McCallum, Sam McKegney, Michaela Moura–Koçoğlu, Angelie Multani, Kavita Ivy Nandan, Stephen Ney, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Mumia G. Osaaji, Marilyn Adler Papayanis, Summer Pervez, Fred Ribkoff, Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Anjali Gera Roy, Frank Schulze–Engler, Paul Sharrad, Lincoln Z. Shlensky, K. Satyanarayana, Vandana Saxena, P. Sivakami, Pilar Somacarrera, Susan Spearey, Cheryl Stobie, Robert J.C. Young

Postcolonialism in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature, Modern. --- Modern literature --- Arts, Modern --- History and criticism. --- 2000-2099 --- Letterkunde --- Literature --- Literature. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- History and criticism

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This interdisciplinary collection of critical articles seeks to reassess the concept of hybridity and its relevance to post-colonial theory and literature. The challenging articles written by internationally acclaimed scholars discuss the usefulness of the term in relation to such questions as citizenship, whiteness studies and transnational identity politics. In addition to developing theories of hybridity, the articles in this volume deal with the role of hybridity in a variety of literary and cultural phenomena in geographical settings ranging from the Pacific to native North America. The collection pays particular attention to questions of hybridity, migrancy and diaspora.

Cultural fusion in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- 82:93 --- 82:3 --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- Hybriditeit in de letterkunde. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- Postcolonialisme --- Métissage --- Dans la littérature

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This book analyses the theme of community in seven French Caribbean novels in relation to the work of the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. The islands’ complex history means that community is a central and problematic issue in their literature, and underlies a range of other questions such as political agency, individual and collective subjectivity, attitudes towards the past and the future, and even literary form itself. Britton examines Jacques Roumain’s Gouverneurs de la rosée, Edouard Glissant’s Le Quatrième Siècle, Simone Schwarz-Bart’s Pluie et vent sur Télumée Miracle, Vincent Placoly’s L’eau-de-mort guildive, Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco, Daniel Maximin’s L’Ile et une nuit and Maryse Condé’s Desirada.

Franstalige Caribische letterkunde --- Gemeenschappen in de letterkunde --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde --- Gemeenschappen in de letterkunde. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- Franstalige Caribische letterkunde. --- 82.04 --- 840 <100> --- 840 <100> Franse literatuur: extra muros --- Franse literatuur: extra muros --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- Literaire thema's --- French literature (outside France) --- Fiction --- Caribbean Area --- Culturele identiteit --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Caribbean area --- Caribbean fiction (French) --- Communities in literature. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- French fiction --- Caribbean literature (French) --- Community in literature --- Identity in literature --- History and criticism. --- Nancy, Jean-Luc. --- West Indian fiction (French) --- Literature and society --- Social classes in literature. --- Community life in literature. --- Roumain, Jacques, --- Glissant, Édouard, --- Schwarz-Bart, Simone. --- Placoly, Vincent, --- Chamoiseau, Patrick. --- Maximin, Daniel, --- Condé, Maryse. --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- West Indian literature (French) --- Social aspects

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Despite a stated commitment to cross-cultural solidarity, trauma theory—an area of cultural investigation that emerged out of the 'ethical turn' affecting the humanities in the 1990s—is marked by a Eurocentric, monocultural bias. This book takes issue with the tendency of the founding texts of the field to marginalize or ignore traumatic experiences of non-Western or minority groups, and to take for granted the universal validity of definitions of trauma and recovery that have developed out of the history of Western modernity. Moreover, it questions the assumption that a modernist aesthetic of fragmentation and aporia is uniquely suited to the task of bearing witness to trauma, and criticizes the neglect of the connections between metropolitan and non-Western or minority traumas. Combining theoretical argument with literary case studies, Postcolonial Witnessing contends that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its promise of cross-cultural ethical engagement.

English literature --- Psychic trauma in literature. --- Postcolonialism in literature. --- Wounds and injuries in literature. --- Literature and society. --- Littérature anglaise --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Lésions et blessures dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Histoire et critique --- Psychic trauma in literature --- Postcolonialism in literature --- Wounds and injuries in literature --- Literature and society --- History and criticism --- Trauma (letterkunde) --- English-language literature --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde --- Postkolonialisme --- Engelse letterkunde --- Engelstalige landen --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- #SBIB:39A4 --- #SBIB:39A5 --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Toegepaste antropologie --- Kunst, habitat, materiële cultuur en ontspanning --- Social aspects --- Trauma (letterkunde). --- English-language literature. --- Postkolonialisme in de letterkunde. --- Engelstalige landen. --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Littérature anglaise --- Traumatisme psychique dans la littérature --- Postcolonialisme dans la littérature --- Lésions et blessures dans la littérature --- Littérature et société --- Ecrivains issus des minorités --- Geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Minority authors&delete& --- English literature - Minority authors - History and criticism