Interdisciplinary measures : literature and the future of postcolonial studies
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Interdisciplinary measures : literature and the future of postcolonial studies
（Postcolonialism across the disciplines / series editors, Graham Huggan, Andrew Thompson, 1）
Liverpool University Press, 2008
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Interdisciplinary Measures makes the case for a cross-disciplinary, but literature-centred, approach to postcolonial studies. Despite the anxieties that interdisciplinarity brings with it, a combination of different, discontinuously structured disciplinary knowledges is arguably best suited to address the tangled concerns of both the globalised present and the colonial past. The book looks specifically at the intersections between literary criticism, history, anthropology, geography and environmental studies, while arguing more specifically for a postcolonialism across the disciplines in the service of informed (cross-) cultural critique. Bringing together a wide range of literary material from Africa, Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, New Zealand and South Asia, the book also considers the different, but sometimes related, cultural contexts within which the key debates in postcolonial studies - e.g. those around globalisation, North-South relations and the new imperialism - are currently taking place. These debates suggest the need for a multi-sited, multilinguistic and, not least, multidisciplinary appraoch to postcolonial studies that consolidates its status as a comparative field.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section I. Literature, Geography, Environment
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
Section II. Literature, Culture, Anthropology
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
Section III. Literature, History, Memory
9 Philomela's Retold Story: Silence, Music and the Postcolonial Text
10 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
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