The Postcolonial World

1. On postcolonial happiness
2. On not closing the loop: Empathy, ethics, and transcultural witnessing
3. Affective histories and Partition narratives in postcolonial South Asia: Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Betrayed
4. The unsettled space of identity formation in Samir Naqqash’s Shlomo al-Kurdi, Myself and Time (2004)
5. Queers in-between: Globalizing sexualities, local resistances
6. Morality and desire: The role of the “Westernized” woman in post-independence Pakistani cinema
7. Queer camouflage as survival, presence, and expressive capital in the postcolonial artwork of Kiam Marcelo Junio
8. Fictive identities on a diasporic ethnic stage: A “modern girl” consumed in Dominican beauty pageants
9. “Postcolonial remains”: Critical religion, postcolonial theory, and deconstructing the secular–religious binary
10. Gods in a democracy: State of nature, postcolonial politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas
11. Imagining the “Muslim” woman: Religious movements and constructions of gender in the sub-continent
12. Representing postcolonial Zanzibar in contested literary, cultural, and political geographies
13. Transcolonial cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi stage Palestine in France-Algeria
14. Virtual encounters in postcolonial spaces: Nollywood movies about mobile telephony
15. Curio fever: Tsubouchi Shōyō, Lafcadio Hearn, and the cultural politics of “collecting Japan” in the Age of Empire
16. Inhospitality, European style: The failures of human rights
17. “Always on top”? The “Responsibility to Protect” and the persistence of colonialism
18. Drug detention and human rights in post-doi moi Vietnam
19. Breaking and building: The case of postcolonial digital humanities
20. Subaltern archives, digital historiographies
21. If Fanon had had Facebook: Postcolonial knowledge, rhizomes, and the gnosis of the digital
22. “Ill fares the land”: Ecology, capitalism, and literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland
23. Toxic bodies and alien agencies: Ecocritical perspectives on ecological others
24. Rethinking postcolonial resistance in Niger-Delta literature: An ecocritical reading of Okpewho’s Tides and Ojaide’s The Activist
25. Relating to and through land: An ecology of relations in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
26. Unlocking history: Postcolonial ethics and the critique of neoliberalism
27. The journey of the West African migrant: Francophone cinematic representations in Frontières, Bamako, and La Pirogue
28. Boutique ethnicity: On African Ancestry and neoliberal economies of the self
29. Neoliberal colonialism? A postcolonial reading of “land grabbing” in Africa

The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolonialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine: Affective, Postcolonial Histories Postcolonial Desires Religious Imaginings Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism.