1st Edition
Transnational Postcolonial Studies in the Twenty-First Century Infrastructures, Literatures, Applications
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Contributors
Introduction: Theoretical Vitality in the Contemporary Moment
Roslyn Joy Irving and Rachael Sumner
Part I: Infrastructures
1: Subaltern Ecology and Planetary Solidarity in Orijit Sen’s River of Stories
Agnibha Maity and Somasree Sarkar
2: Transcultural Humour and the City
Silvia Anastasijevic
3: Infrastructures of Memory in Post-Brexit Northern Ireland
Rachael Sumner
4: Disenchanting the Return Home in Diasporic Writing: Infrastructural Poetics in Anna Moï’s L’Année du Cochon de Feu
Maika Nguyen
Part II: Literatures
5: The Location of Transnational Postcolonialism in Afrodiasporic Novels
Nadia Butt and Michelle Stork
6: Young Women with Sharp Knives: The Case of Oyinkan Braithwaite
Zbigniew Białas
7: Decolonial Dystopia: Violence in Omar El Akkad’s American War
Ayman Almomani
8: Water as Cultural Memory: Elemental Resistance in Richard Flanagan’s Death of a River Guide
Ruvindra Sathsarani
9: The First World War, Indian Sepoys and the Ethics of Postcolonial War Commemoration
Anna Branach-Kallas
10: Literary Form Through the New Edition of VS Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness
Roslyn Joy Irving
Part III: Applications
11: The bhadralok as “the Naxalite”: Questioning Revolutionary Identities
Damini Bhattacharya
12: Vigné d’Octon, the Blockhouse, and the Paradox of the Sublime
Tolulope Onabolu
13: “The Szgany are quartered”: Romani History, Representation, and Coloniality in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Madeline Potter
14: From Soft Skin to Strong Voices: Lived Experiences of Displaced Children through Digital Storytelling
Hakan Ergül and Michelle Cannon
15: Freudian Slip: On the Persistence of “Colonial” Prejudices in Political Ecology and Critical Physical Geography
Marcelo Lopes de Souza
Index
Biography
Roslyn Joy Irving is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in English Literature at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
Rachael Sumner is a senior lecturer in English at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.
