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Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures


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Edited in collaboration with the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury, Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures presents a wide range of research into postcolonial literatures by specialists in the field. Volumes concentrate on writers and writing originating in previously (or presently) colonized areas, and include material from non-anglophone as well as anglophone colonies and literatures.

Part of our home for cutting-edge, upper-level scholarly studies and edited collections, this series considers postcolonial literature alongside topics such as gender, race, ecology, religion, politics, and science. Titles are characterized by dynamic interventions into established subjects and innovative studies on emerging topics. Currently the series is managed by Bahriye Kemal, Donna Landry and Caroline Rooney

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Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples

Criminality and Power in the Postcolonial City: Mapping the Mean Streets of Mumbai and Naples

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By Maria Ridda
May 27, 2024

This book investigates the literary imaginings of the postcolonial city through the lens of crime in texts set in Naples and Mumbai from the 1990s to the present. Employing the analogy of a ‘black hole,’ it posits the discourse on criminality as a way to investigate the contemporary spatial ...

Postsecular Poetics Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

Postsecular Poetics: Negotiating the Sacred and Secular in Contemporary African Fiction

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By Rebekah Cumpsty
May 27, 2024

This book is the first full-length study of the postsecular in African literatures. Religion, secularism, and the intricate negotiations between the two, codified in recent criticism as postsecularism, are fundamental conditions of globalized modernity. These concerns have been addressed in social ...

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict

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By Ali Yiğit
May 15, 2024

Christianity and the African Counter-Discourse in Achebe and Beti: Cultures in Dialogue, Contest and Conflict intervenes, in light of African literary products, the history of Christianity in Africa in late 19th and early 20th centuries, goes beyond the existing clichés about the operations of the ...

Ngugi wa Thiong’o Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance

Ngugi wa Thiong’o: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Resistance

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By Amitayu Chakraborty
March 13, 2024

As a part of Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literature, the book explores the complex of ways in which Ngugi wa Thiong’o wrestles with issues of nationalism and ethnicity through his politically subversive and creatively intense literary texts. His novels and plays are fraught with his anxiety,...

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean Hopeful Futures

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures

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By Elena Igartuburu García
February 12, 2024

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the...

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics

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By Aroosa Kanwal
January 31, 2024

Rehumanizing Muslim Subjectivities: Postcolonial Geographies, Postcolonial Ethics is a timely and urgent monograph, allowing us to imagine what it feels like to be the victim of genocide, abuse, dehumanization, torture and violence, something which many Muslims in Palestine, Kashmir, Pakistan, ...

Maternal Fictions Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction

Maternal Fictions: Writing the Mother in Indian Women’s Fiction

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By Indrani Karmakar
January 29, 2024

This book constitutes a feminist literary analysis of motherhood as presented in selected Indian women’s fictions across a diverse range of geographical, linguistic, class and caste contexts. Situated at the crossroads of motherhood studies and literary studies, this book offers a rigorous ...

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

Emotional Transitions in Contemporary Afrodiasporic Women’s Writing: Defying the Ontology of the Stranger

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By Ángela Suárez-Rodríguez
December 15, 2023

This book is an in-depth study of the category "stranger" as represented in four contemporary Afrodiasporic novels of female authorship: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Sefi Atta’s A Bit of Difference, NoViolet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names and Imbolo Mbue’s Behold the Dreamers. Examined from...

(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media

(Re)Framing Women in Post-Millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran: Remediated Witnessing in Literary, Visual, and Digital Media

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By Rachel Gregory Fox
September 25, 2023

This book critically examines the representational politics of women in post-millennial Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iran across a range of literary, visual, and digital media. Introducing the conceptual model of remediated witnessing, the book contemplates the ways in which meaning is constructed,...

Postcolonial Indian City-Literature Policy, Politics and Evolution

Postcolonial Indian City-Literature: Policy, Politics and Evolution

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By Dibyakusum Ray
September 25, 2023

How is the city represented through literature from the post-colonies? This book searches for an answer to this question, by keeping its focus on India—from after Independence to the millennia. How does the urban space and the literature depicting it form a dialogue within? How have Indian cities ...

Frontiers of South Asian Culture Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond

Frontiers of South Asian Culture: Nation, Trans-Nation and Beyond

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Edited By Parichay Patra, Amitendu Bhattacharya
September 22, 2023

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes...

Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

Narrating Violence in the Postcolonial World

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Edited By Rebecca Romdhani, Daria Tunca
May 31, 2023

This book examines representations of violence across the postcolonial world—from the Americas to Australia—in novels, short stories, plays, and films. The chapters move from what appear to be interpersonal instances of violence to communal conflicts such as civil war, showing how these acts of ...

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