Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium
Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.

Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on:

  • new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
  • new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces
  • new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’.

Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.

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Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium
Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.

Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on:

  • new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
  • new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces
  • new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’.

Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.

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Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium

Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium

Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium

Rerouting the Postcolonial: New Directions for the New Millennium

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Rerouting the Postcolonial re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.

Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on:

  • new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism
  • new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces
  • new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’.

Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415543255
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/10/2009
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 264
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janet Wilson, Cristina Sandru, Sarah Lawson Welsh

Table of Contents

List of editors, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, General acknowledgements, General introduction, SECTION 1 Theoretical reroutings: cosmopolitanism, transnationality and the neo-liberal subject, SECTION 2 Remapping the postcolonial: globalism, localism and diasporas, SECTION 3 Literary reroutings: ethics, aesthetics and the postcolonial canon, Index
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