Southern Postcolonialisms

<p>Southern Postcolonialisms is an anthology of critical essays on new literary representations from the Global South that seeks to re-invent/reorient the ideological, disciplinary, aesthetic, and pedagogical thrust of Postcolonial Studies in accordance with the new and shifting politico-economic realities/transactions between the North and the South, as well as within the Global South, in an era of globalization. </p><p>Since the emergence of Postcolonial Theory in the 1980s, the shape of the world has changed dramatically. Old Cold War boundaries have shifted in the wake of the collapse of communism, Globalization, on an unprecedented scale, has dramatically changed the meaning of time and space. The rise of the US as a new imperial power has profound implications for the world order. In the South, new emerging markets have challenged the older division of industrial ‘first world’ and non-industrial ‘third world’.</p><p>In most parts of the world, the academy is struggling to keep up with these developments. One result has been a major transnational turn in the humanities and social sciences. Terms like ‘world history’, ‘globalization’, ‘glocalization’ and ‘transnationalism’ now dominate academic agendas worldwide. </p><p>These changing circumstances raise far-reaching questions. What does the new emerging world order mean for established models of postcolonial theory? Is postcolonialism as a field of study being overtaken by models of globalization and transnationalism? What implications do the new configurations in the South have for postcolonial theory? </p><p>This volume, drawn from a major literary conference at Delhi University, provides a set of perspectives on these questions. With a majority of contributions by scholars from the South, these research articles have a dual focus – they revisit older debates on postcolonial theory, while suggesting new perspectives and directions. </p> <p>1.<em><strong> </strong></em>Acknowledgements 2. Foreword <em>Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan</em> 3. Introduction - 'Southern Postcolonialisms: The Global South and the ‘New’ Literary Representations'<em> Sumanyu Satpathy</em> <strong>Part 1: Canons of the New </strong>4. A balance of Stories: The Making of a Discipline <em>Sue Thomas</em> 5. English in an Uneven World: Literature in English Transition <em>Meenakshi Mukherjee </em>6. The toger that Pounced: The African Writers Series (1962-2003)<em> Robert Fraser</em> 7. Indian Ocean Testimonies: Narrative and Governmentality between South Africa and India<em> Isobel Hofmeyer</em> 8. Rushdie’s Indian Literature and Ours <em>Sumanyu Satpathy</em> 9. O.V. Vijayan – The Echo of the Cupola (Literatures-New Literatures) <em>Divya Dwivedi</em> <strong>Part 2: Pedagogies from the Postcolony </strong>10. The New English Literatures and the Globalization of Tertiary Education <em>Dieter Riemenschneider</em> 11. Getting In and Out of the Dark Room: Canadian Texts as Neutral Ground for Self-Expression and Empathy in Conflicts <em>Danielle Schaub</em> 12. Pedagogy of Indian Partition Literature in the Light of Trauma Theory <em>Beerendra Pandey</em> 13. Decolonizing the Classroom: In Search of ‘New’ Pedagogies for ‘New’ Literatures? <em>Brinda Bose, Vaibhav I. Parel and Akhil Katyal</em> <strong>Part 3: Gendered Citizenships in Transnational Times </strong>14. Policing Transgression, Disciplining Taslima: State Censorship in Postcolonial Bangladesh <em>Manmay Zafar </em>15. Bread, Blood, and Bones: Democratic Socialism and Jamaican Drama <em>Kanika Batra </em>16. ‘Between Two Worlds’: A Narrative of the Split Self <em>Kay Souter</em> 17. National Mythologies and Secret Histories: Faultlines in the Bark Hut in Some Recent Australian Fiction <em>Carol Merli</em> 18. Bibliography 19. Index</p>