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Anita Desai
Beijing Coma
Black Map
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China
Chinese Communist Party
CIA Agent
Circuitous
civil conflict analysis
civil war
Colonial Hill Stations
colonial legacies
Ecocriticism
Environmental Humanities
environmental justice
environmentalism
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Fire On The Mountain
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Global Civil War
global landscape
globalisation studies
Hill Station
Islamic fundamentalism
literary aesthetics
Ma Jian
Mahasweta Devi
Natural Beauty
neo-colonialism
Neocolonialism
Pasteur Institute
Picturesque Discourse
Postcolonial
postcolonial global power dynamics
postcolonial literature
Postcolonial Studies
Puran Sahay
Salman Rushdie
secularism in literature
Sri Lankan
Textual Practice
Transnational
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USA
Violated
Wang Fei
Wasted Vigil
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781138306295
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 12 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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This volume brings together an international range of postcolonial scholars to explore four distinct themes which are inherently interconnected within the globalised landscape of the early 21st century: China, Islamic fundamentalism, civil war and environmentalism. Through close-reading a range of literary texts by writers drawn from across the globe, these essays seek to emphasise the importance of literary aesthetics in situating the theoretical underpinnings and political motivations of postcolonial studies in the new millennium.

Colonial legacies, especially in terms of structuring exploitative capitalist relations between countries and regions are shown to persist in postcolonial nations in the form of ‘global civil wars’ and systemic environmental waste. Chinese authoritarianism and the Indian picturesque represent less familiar forms of neo-colonialism. These essays not only engage with established writers such as Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai; they also critically reflect on work by Nadeem Aslam, Mai Couto, Romesh Gunesekara, Bei Dao and Ma Jian.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Textual Practice.

About
Lucienne Loh is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Liverpool, UK. She is author of The Postcolonial Country in Contemporary Literature (2013) and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Malcolm Sen is an Irish Research Council Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for the Environment. His essays have been published in a number of academic journals and books, and in literary magazines and newspapers. He is the editor of a podcast series, Irish Studies and the Environmental Humanities, which is available on University College Dublin’s Scholarcast channel.