Interdisciplinary Measures
Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
256 pages
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6 x 9
Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field’s most original thinkers. Not so long ago, the driving force behind postcolonial criticism was literary; increasingly, however, many have claimed that the future of postcolonial studies is interdisciplinary. Interdisciplinary Measures thoroughly considers this alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial studies by setting up a series of conversations among these newly postcolonial disciplines—notably geography, environmental studies, history, and anthropology—and literary studies in which the imaginative possibilities of non-Western epistemologies are brought to the fore.
Contents
Introduction: Postcolonial Studies and the anxiety of interdisciplinarity
Section One: Literature and geography
1. Decolonising the map: postcolonialism, poststructuralism and the cartographic connection
2. Unsettled settlers: reflections on the new migrant aesthetics
3. Postcolonialism, travel writing and the myth of wild Africa
4. 'Greening’ postcolonialism: ecocritical perspectives
Section Two: Literature and History
1. Philomela's retold story: silence, music and the postcolonial text
2. A tale of two parrots: Walcott, Rhys and the uses of colonial mimicry
3. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory
4. The uses and abuses of Ned Kelly: cultural memory in postcolonial fiction
Section Three: Literature and anthropology
1. Anthropologists and other frauds
2. Maps, dreams and the presentation of ethnographic narrative
3. African literature and the anthropological exotic
4. Anthropology, (post)colonialism and the magic of mimesis
Afterword
Notes and bibliography
Section One: Literature and geography
1. Decolonising the map: postcolonialism, poststructuralism and the cartographic connection
2. Unsettled settlers: reflections on the new migrant aesthetics
3. Postcolonialism, travel writing and the myth of wild Africa
4. 'Greening’ postcolonialism: ecocritical perspectives
Section Two: Literature and History
1. Philomela's retold story: silence, music and the postcolonial text
2. A tale of two parrots: Walcott, Rhys and the uses of colonial mimicry
3. Ghost stories, bone flutes, cannibal countermemory
4. The uses and abuses of Ned Kelly: cultural memory in postcolonial fiction
Section Three: Literature and anthropology
1. Anthropologists and other frauds
2. Maps, dreams and the presentation of ethnographic narrative
3. African literature and the anthropological exotic
4. Anthropology, (post)colonialism and the magic of mimesis
Afterword
Notes and bibliography
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