Postcolonial Audiences

Bethan Benwell is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling. James Procter is Reader in Modern English and Postcolonial Literature at Newcastle University. Gemma Robinson is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Stirling.

• Introduction I. Real Readers/Actual Audiences 1. The politics of postcolonial laughter: the international reception of the New Zealand animated comedy series bro’TownMichelle Keown 2. That’s maybe where I come from but that’s not how I read: Diaspora, Location and Reading Identities Bethan Benwell, James Procter and Gemma Robinson 3. "Bollywood" adolescents: young viewers discuss class, representation and Hindi films Shakuntala BanajiII. Readers and Publishers 4. Does the North Read the South? The international reception of South African scholarly texts Elizabeth Le Roux 5. William Plomer reading: The publisher’s reader at Jonathan Cape Gail Low 6. Too much Rushdie, not enough Romance?: The UK publishing industry and BME (Black Minority Ethnic) readership Claire SquiresIII. Reading in Representation 7. Rushdie’s hero as audience - interpreting India through Indian popular cinema Florian Stadtler 8. The "New" India and the politics of reading in Pankaj Mishra‘s Butter Chicken in LudhianaLucienne Loh 9. Local and global reading communities in Robert Antoni’s My Grandmother’s Erotic FolktalesLucy EvansIV. Reading and Nationalism 10. Reading gender and social reform in the Indian Social ReformerSrila Nayak 11. Reading After Terror: The Reluctant Fundamentalist and First-World Allegory Neelam Srivastava 12. "Macaulay’s Children": Thomas Babington Macaulay and the imperialism of reading in India Katie HalseyV. Reading and Postcolonial Ethics 13. Theorising postcolonial reception: writing, reading, and moral agency in the Satanic Verses affair Daniel Allington14. Reading before the Law: Melville’s ‘Bartleby’ and Asylum Seeker Narratives David Farrier 15. Sympathetic shame in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace and Diary of a Bad YearKatherine Hallemeier 16. Responsible Reading and Cultural Difference Derek Attridge