Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature

Praseeda Gopinath received her PhD from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University, SUNY and the author of Scarecrows of Chivalry: English Masculinities after Empire (2013). She is a co-editor of special issues of South Asian Popular Culture and Sounding Out! She has published widely on masculinity, twentieth-century British literature, and postcolonial studies, as well as film, star, and sound studies.Laura Brueck received her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin. She is Professor of South Asian and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of Writing Resistance: The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature (2014) and has published translations of several Hindi literary texts. She is a co-editor of Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship (2020) as well as special issues of South Asia and Words Without Borders.

• INTRODUCTION: DECOLONIZING FUTURESONE: POSTCOLONIAL AND DECOLONIAL DIALOGUESAnia Loomba, Problems and Possibilities in Field Formation: Postcolonial and Decolonial StudiesNelson Maldonado-Torres, Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities: A ManifestoLeela Gandhi, Notes Towards a Future PostcolonialismGurminder Bhambra, Postcolonial and Decolonial ReconstructionsChris Abani, InterviewTWO: NATURAL AND UNNATURAL WORLDSAmit R. Baishya, Riddles of Sand: Storied Matter and Local Planetarity in Jatin Mipun’s “Tarun Peguk Agom”Ashley Dawson, Environmental Insurrection: India’s Adivasi Communities and Environmental Struggles in Mahashweta Devi’s “Draupadi”Stuart Cooke, Ethological Poetics: The Noisy Polis of a Decolonial EcopoeticsPramod Nayar, Writ on Water: Aesthetics and the Contemporary Catachronistic NovelTHREE: THEORIZING THE BORDERClaire Gallien, Aridity-Line Literatures: Beyond the Postcolonial and into the Decolonization of Literary Practice and Theory in Al-Kuni’s (line above i) And Hawad’s WorksAdhira Mangalagiri, Comparison and the Search for Unmediated EncounterKalyan Nadiminti, Infections Sovereignty: Australian Offshore Detention and Viscerality in Behrouz Boochani’s Asylum ArtNimanthi Perera-Rajasingham, Post/Apartheid Cartographies and the War on Terror: Black Consciousness and Political Arab Identities in the Writings of Ishtiyaq ShukriLouise Harrington, Critical Border Studies and De/Postcolonial LiteratureFOUR: GENRE AS DECOLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL PRAXISAnjali Nerlekar, The Ground Beneath One’s Feet and the Span of the PostcolonialRoanne L. Kantor, Of Mimicry and Misreading: Reevaluating the Politics of Surface from Homi Bhabha and Severo SarduyKaterina González Seligmann and Yolanda Martínez San Miguel, Feeling Un-national in the Caribbean: Reading Colonial, Postcolonial, and Decolonial Narratives in Rita Indiana’s La mucama de Ominunlé Jeong Eun Annabel We, On Faith and Fabulation: Decolonial Thought and Speculative FictionFIVE: IDENTITY POETICSRita Kothari, Creamy Layer: Pedagogies of Caste and TranslationJoseph M. Pierce (Cherokee Nation Citizen), Queer NDN Love: Poetics, Land, and Decolonial EroticismDanica Čerče, Objecting to Racialized and Gender-Based Violence in Aboriginal Women’s PoetryDeepti Misri, Towards a Decolonial Kashmiri Feminist PoeticsNiloofar Sarlati, Sweet and Salty: A Taste of (Semi)translating Colonial Modernity in IranSIX: TECHONOLOGIES OF SELF AND COMMUNITYK’eguro Macharia, Terrains of RelationScott Newman, African Literature’s Sonic Imagination: Sounds of Embodiment and Environment in Multilingual WritingRoopika Risam, The Politics of Knowledge, the Politics of Data: Postcolonial Data FuturesBirgit Rasmussen, Colonialism, Literacy, and Decolonization: The Cherokee Writing System