The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel

Ato Quayson is Professor of English and Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is Fellow of both the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Royal Society of Canada. His books include Postcolonialism: Theory, Practice or Process, Calibrations: Reading for the Social, and Aesthetic Nervousness: Disability and the Crisis of Representation.

• 1. Introduction: the postcolonial novel in a changing frame Ato Quayson; 2. The colonial novel Tim Watson; 3. The postcolonial novel in the wake of 1989 Debjani Ganguly; 4. Magical/realist novels and the politics of the possible Zoe Norridge; 5. Nature, ecocriticism, and the postcolonial novel Anthony Carrigan; 6. Disability and the postcolonial novel Clare Barker; 7. Gender, sexuality, and the postcolonial novel Evan Mwangi; 8. The postcolonial novel and diaspora Yoon Sun Lee; 9. Itineraries of the sublime in the postcolonial novel Philip Dickinson; 10. The postcolonial crime novel Stephen Knight; 11. The gleam and the darkness: representations of the city in the postcolonial novel Rashmi Varma; 12. Space and the postcolonial novel Robert Zacharias; 13. Tragedy, alienation, and the postcolonial novel Ato Quayson.

'… this remarkable volume fills a gap and appears as a welcome overview; it will certainly prove useful to students and teachers alike.' Commonwealth Essays and Studies