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Book SynopsisArticles on the historical, social and political realities of postcolonialism as expressed in contemporary writing.Contemporary postcolonial studies represent a controversial area of debate. This collection seeks a more pragmatic approach to the subject, taking into account its historical, social and political realities, rather than ignoring aconsideration of material conditions. The contributors look at the oppositional power held and exercised by anti-colonial movements, a neglected topic; address the literary strategies devised by metropolitan writers to contain the insecurities of empire, given that unrest and opposition were integral to British imperialism; contest the charges of nativism and essentialism made by postcolonial critics against liberation writings; and investigate the voicesof both inhabitants of post-independence nation states, and those scattered by colonialism itself. Dr LAURA CHRISMAN teaches at Sussex University; BENITA PARRY is Honorary Professor at Warwick University. Contributors: Vilashini Cooppan, Fernando Coronil, Gautam Premnath, Ato Quayson, Tim Watson, Lawrence Phillips, Sukhdev Sandhu
Table of ContentsW(h)ither Post-Colonial Studies? Towards the Transnational Study of Race and Nation - Vilashini Cooppan Listening to the Subaltern: Postcolonial Studies and the Poetics of Neocolonial States - Fernando Coronil Remembering Fanon, Decolonizing Diaspora - Gautam Premnath Instrumental and Synoptic Dimensions of Interdisciplinarity in Postcolonial Studies - Indian and Irish Unrest in Kipling's Kim - Tim Watson The Canker of Empire: Colonialism, Autobiography and the Representation of Illness: Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson in the Marquesasin the Marquesas - Lawrence Phillips Pop Goes the Centre: Hanif Kureishi's London - Sukhdev Sandhu
