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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453866303321

Autore

Huggan Graham

Titolo

Interdisciplinary Measures [[electronic resource] ] : Literature and the Future of Postcolonial Studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2008

ISBN

1-78138-677-3

1-84631-333-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Collana

Postcolonialism Across the Disciplines, 1 ; ; v.v. 1

Disciplina

809

820.9358

Soggetti

Australian literature

Interdisciplinary research

Literature and globalization

Literature and society

Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism in literature

Racism in literature

Transnationalism in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1: Decolonizing the Map: Postcolonialism, Poststructuralism and the Cartographic Connection; 2: Unsettled Settlers: Postcolonialism, Travelling Theory and the New Migrant Aesthetics; 3: Postcolonial Geography, Travel Writing and the Myth of Wild Africa; 4: 'Greening' Postcolonialism: Ecocritical Perspectives; 5: Anthropologists and Other Frauds; 6: African Literature and the Anthropological Exotic; 7: (Post)Colonialism, Anthropology and the Magic of Mimesis; 8: Maps, Dreams and the Presentation of Ethnographic Narrative

9: Philomela's Retold Story: Silence, Music and the Postcolonial Text10: Ghost Stories, Bone Flutes, Cannibal Counter-memory; 11: Cultural Memory in Postcolonial Fiction: The Uses and Abuses of Ned Kelly; 12:



(Not) Reading Orientalism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Where now for postcolonial studies? That is the central question in this new volume from one of the field's most original thinkers. Huggan's answer is interdisciplinarity and here he sets out a series of conversations between literary studies and other disciplines, notably geography, environmental studies, history and anthropology.Huggan aims to establish an alternative trajectory through the field of postcolonial literary/cultural studies that is alert to similar kinds of work being done in and across other disciplines; and reflects on possible futures for postcolonial studies that move beyon