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.
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