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"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"-- Provided by publisher

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 ce.

Routledge research in postcolonial literatures ; 52

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Comparing

1. Postcolonial Studies in French-speaking Areas: France, Francophonie, and the World / Jean-Marc Moura

2. Ẁe've Done Our Bit, Too!': Crossover Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Reception of Postcolonial Writing in Italy / Silvia Albertazzi

3. Future Linguistic Approaches to African Literature / Vicki Briault-Manus

pt. II Converting

4. Conversion, Identity, and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial Spaces: The Writings of Tiyo Soga 1829

1871 / Gareth Griffiths

5. Island Hinduism: Religion and Modernity in Francophone Indian Ocean Literature / Srilata Ravi

6. Fundamentalism and Postcoloniality: Beyond Westoxification? / Klaus Stierstorfer

pt. III Greening

7. Greening in Contemporary Arabic Literature: The Transformation of Mythic Motifs in Postcolonial Discourse / Ferial J. Ghazoul

8. Notes on the Postcolonial Arctic / Graham Huggan

9. Animals, Environment, and Post-Colonial Futures / Helen Tiffin

pt. IV Queering

10. Postcolonially Queer: Sexual Dissidence as Cultural Struggle in Emergent Democracies in Africa / William J. Spurlin

11. Writing Queer in South Africa: Poetry versus Identity

A Creative Response / Joan Hambidge

12. Queer Writes Back: Australia / David Coad

pt. V Utopia

13. Transgendered Nation: Intersexions between the Nation-State and the Transsexual Subject / Chantal Zabus

14. Imperial Diversity: War, Post-humanism, and the Futures of Postcolonial Studies / Mike Hill

15. Future Thinking: Postcolonial Utopianism / Bill Ashcroft.