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Postcolonial Justice' addresses a major issue in current postcolonial theory and beyond, namely, the question of how to reconcile an ethics grounded in the reciprocal acknowledgment of diversity and difference with the normative, if not universal thrust that appears to energize any notion of justice. The concept of postcolonial justice shared by the essays in this volume carries an unwavering commitment to difference within and beyond Europe, while equally rejecting radical cultural essentialisms, which refuse to engage in "utopian ideals" of convivial exchange across a plurality of subject positions. Such utopian ideals can no longer claim universal validity, as in the tradition of the European enlightenment; instead they are bound to local frames of speaking from which they project world

"This book reclaims postcolonial theory, addressing persistent limitations in the geographical, disciplinary, and methodological assumptions of its dominant formations, and emerging from an investment in the future of postcolonial studies and a commitment to its basic premise; namely the conception of particular cultural and literary articulations in relation to larger structures of colonial and imperial domination as a way of putting the theory back in postcolonial theory. To a certain extent, postcolonial theory is a victim of its own success, in part from the institutionalization of the insights that it has enabled: now that they no longer seem new, it is hard to know what the field's work should be beyond these general commitments, or what its practitioners should be debating. The renewal of popular anti-imperial energies across the globe provides a rare opportunity to reassert the political and theoretical value of the postcolonial as a comparative, interdisciplinary, and oppositional paradigm. This collection makes a claim for what postcolonial theory can say through the work of scholars articulating what it still cannot or will not say. It explores ideas that a more aesthetically sophisticated postcolonial theory might be able to address, focusing on questions of visibility, performance, and literariness. Contributors highlight some of the shortcomings of current postcolonial theory in relation to contemporary political developments such as Zimbabwean land reform, postcommunism, and the economic rise of East Asia. Finally, they address the disciplinary, geographical, and methodological exclusions from postcolonial studies through a detailed focus on new disciplinary directions (management studies, theories of the state), overlooked places and perspectives (Palestine, Weimar Germany, the environmentalism of the poor), and the necessity of materialist analysis for understanding both world and world literary systems"--

Depiction of postcolonialism in the works of Nirmal Verma, b. 1929, Hindi fiction writer

"An interdisciplinary collection of essays, Reworking Postcolonialism explores questions of work, precarity, migration, minority and indigenous rights in relation to contemporary globalization. It focuses on the impact of the global market forces on the formation of new subject positions among urban dwellers, exiles, and other disenfranchised communities. Bringing together political, economic and literary approaches to texts and events from across the postcolonial world, the essays collected here investigate the transformative effects of the global dissemination of capital, goods and movements of people, and call for a revision of the existing discourses on rights, entitlements and citizenship"--

Introduction : gateways and walls, or the power and pitfalls of postcolonial metaphors / Daria Tunca & Janet Wilson -- Clothing the borders : dress as a signifier in colonial and post-colonial space / Gareth Griffiths -- "As rare as rubies" : did Salman Rushdie invent Turkish American-literature? / Elena Furlanetto -- The Bosphorus syndrome / Gerhard Stilz -- Geography fabulous : Conrad and Ghosh / Padmini Mongia -- The concomitant spaces of territory and writing : crossing cultural divides / Marta Dvoérâak -- Towards an Australian philosophy : constructive appropriation of enlightenment thinking in Murray Bail's The Pages / Marie Herbillon -- Image-i-nation : Africa/nation, identity, and the nation(s) within / Bronwyn Mills -- Refugees and three short stories from Sri Lanka / Simran Chadha -- Gateway to the unknowable : the Kala Pani in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies and Barlen Pyamootoo's Bâenaráes / John C. Hawley -- Postcolonial literature in the time of world literature / Deepika Marya -- "Die Mauer is no joke!" : the Berlin Wall in Cilla McQueen's Berlin Diary and in the works of Kapka Kassabova / Claudia Duppâe -- The wall as signifier in Ivan Vladislavic's works / Carmen Concilio -- Enclosed: nature : Carol Shields' textual mazes / Vera Alexander -- An ethics of mourning : loss and transnational dynamics in The Shadow Lines by Amitav Ghosh / Golnar Nabizadeh -- The mirage of Europe in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore and Chika Unigwe's On Black Sisters' Street / Elisabeth Bekers -- Desexing the crone: intentional invisibility as postcolonial retaliation in Ravinder Randhawa's A Wicked Old Woman and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's The Mistress of Spices / Devon Campbell-Hall -- The burden of possessions : a postcolonial reading of letters from Bessie Head, Dora Taylor, and Lilian Ngoyi / M.J. Daymond -- Gendered gateways : Australian surfing and the construction of masculinities in Tim Winton's Breath / Sissy Helff

Bringing together contributions from various disciplines and academic fields, this collection engages in interdisciplinary dialogue on postcolonial issues. Covering African, anglophone, Romance, and New-World themes, linguistic, literary, and cultural studies, and historiography, music, art history, and textile studies, the volume raises questions of (inter)disciplinarity, methodology, and entangled histories. The essays focus on the representation of slavery in the transatlantic world. Drawing on a range of historical sources, material objects, and representations, they study Jamaican Creole, African masks, knitted objects, patchwork sculpture, newspapers, films, popular music, and literature of different genres from the Caribbean, West and South Africa, India, and Britain. The also reflect on theoretical problems such as intertextuality and explore intersections - postcolonial literature and transatlantic history; postcolonial and African-American studies; postcolonial literary and cultural studies

Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Vernacular Worlds, Cosmopolitan Imagination: The Intimate Estrangement of Homecoming -- Doing the Right Thing: ACLALS, Social Change, and Cultural Activism -- "There's a Meat Down There": An Essay on English and the Environment in Africa -- Vernacular Patterns in Flux: Mirroring Change in an Aboriginal Workshop, Tiwi Designs, Northern Australia -- Wealth-Giving Mermaid Women and the Malign Magic of the Market: Contemporary Oral Accounts of the South African mamlambo -- "Travelling Knowledges": 'Practising' Indigenous Literatures in the Indian University -- What About Shobhaa Dé? Indian Pulp Fiction Meets Indian Writing in English -- "Ghem pona wai?": Vernacular Imaginations in Contemporary Papua New Guinea Fiction -- Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee: Narrative Power and the Postcolonial -- Language and Perception: Reinstating the Individual in Postcolonial Literary Studies -- Indigenous Exotic: Cosmopolitan Dingoes and Brumbies -- Notes on Contributors -- Index