Postcolonial Literary Studies

Robert P. Marzec is an associate professor of British and postcolonial literature at Purdue University, associate editor of Modern Fiction Studies, and author of An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature: Empire and Enclosures, from Daniel Defoe to Salman Rushdie.

• Acknowledgments The First Thirty Years of Postcolonial Literary Scholarship: The Continuing Importance of a DisciplinePart I: ParadigmsChapter 1. The Margin at the Center: On Testimonio (Testimonial Narrative)Chapter 2. Writing in the Shit: Beckett, Nationalism, and the Colonial SubjectChapter 3. Imperial Triangles: Mark Twain's Foreign AffairsChapter 4. Fiction and the Law: Recent Inscriptions of Gayness in South AfricaChapter 5. Decolonizing Culture: Toward a Theory for Postcolonial Women's TextsChapter 6. Re-Membering Hispaniola: Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of BonesChapter 7. Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude FictionPart II: Postcolonial AfricaChapter 8. Smoke of the Savannah: Traveling Modernity in Sembène Ousmane's God's Bits of WoodChapter 9. Mourning the Postapartheid State Already? The Poetics of Loss in Zakes Mda's Ways of DyingChapter 10. Ngūgī wa Thiong'o's Postnation: The Cultural Geographies of Colonial, Neocolonial, and Postnational SpaceChapter 11. Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after ApartheidChapter 12. The Pastoral Promise and the Political Imperative: The Plaasroman Tradition in an Era of Land ReformPart III: Postcolonial IndiaChapter 13. Leading History by the Nose: The Turn to the Eighteenth Century in Midnight's ChildrenChapter 14. The Feminist Plot and the Nationalist Allegory: Home and World in Two Indian Women's Novels in EnglishChapter 15. Memory, Identity, Patriarchy: Projecting a Past in the Memoirs of Sara Suleri and Michael OndaatjeChapter 16. Figures of Colonial ResistancePart IV: New DirectionsChapter 17. Introduction: Worldly EnglishChapter 18. Narrative in Prison: Stories from the Palestinian IntifadaChapter 19. Globalization, Postcoloniality, and the Problem of Literary Studies in The Satanic VersesChapter 20. National Narratives, Postnational NarrationChapter 21. Comic Visions and Revisions in the Work of Lynda Barry and Marjane SatrapiChapter 22. Tenderness: A Mediator of Identity and Gender Construction in PoliticsList of Contributors Index

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