Interdisciplinary Measures [electronic resource] : Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies
Huggan, Graham.
Liverpool : Liverpool University Press,
2008.
Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Huggan's answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan aims to establish an alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial literary/cultural studies that is alert to similar kinds of work being done in and across other disciplines; and reflects on possible futures for postcolonial studies that move beyon
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Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Decolonizing the Map: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism and the Cartographic Connection; 2: Unsettled Settlers: Postcolonialism, Travelling Theory and the New Migrant Aesthetics; 3: Postcolonial Geography, Travel Writing and the Myth of Wild Africa; 4: 'Greening' Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives; 5: Anthropologists and Other Frauds; 6: African Literature and the Anthropological Exotic; 7: (Post)Colonialism, Anthropology and the Magic of Mimesis; 8: Maps, Dreams and the Presentation of Ethnographic Narrative
9: Philomela's Retold Story: Silence, Music and the Postcolonial Text10: Ghost Stories, Bone Flutes, Cannibal Counter-memory; 11: Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly; 12: (Not) Reading Orientalism; Index
Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Huggan's answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan aims to establish an alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial literary/cultural studies that is alert to similar kinds of work being done in and across other disciplines; and reflects on possible futures for postcolonial studies that move beyon
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Australian literature.
Interdisciplinary research.
Literature and globalization.
Literature and society.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism in literature.
Racism in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.