<p><em>Rerouting the Postcolonial</em> re-orientates and re-invigorates the field of Postcolonial Studies in line with recent trends in critical theory, reconnecting the ethical and political with the aesthetic aspect of postcolonial culture.</p><p>Bringing together a group of leading and emerging intellectuals, this volume charts and challenges the diversity of postcolonial studies, including sections on:</p><ul> <p> </p> <li>new directions and growth areas from performance and autobiography to diaspora and transnationalism</li> <li>new subject matters such as sexuality and queer theory, ecocriticism and discussions of areas of Europe as postcolonial spaces</li> <li>new theoretical directions such as globalization, fundamentalism, terror and theories of ‘affect’.</li> </ul><p>Each section incorporates a clear, concise introduction, making this volume both an accessible overview of the field whilst also an invigorating collection of scholarship for the new millennium.</p> List of editors, List of contributors, Acknowledgements, General acknowledgements, General introduction, SECTION 1 Theoretical reroutings: cosmopolitanism, transnationality and the neo-liberal subject, SECTION 2 Remapping the postcolonial: globalism, localism and diasporas, SECTION 3 Literary reroutings: ethics, aesthetics and the postcolonial canon, Index