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Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and
postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical
nexus of colonialism, colonial nostalgia, and the rise of
narcissistic nationalism in contemporary Europe. This collection
moves away from existing literary discourses framing Brexit as a
'novel' event that ushered in a new genre of British fiction. It
challenges the hackneyed public discourses that depict the results
of the 2016 Referendum as the catalyst of regional instability as
well as sociopolitical emergency in Europe. This book traces and
critiques populist myth-making in the current United Kingdom
through engagement with a wide range of literary and cultural
productions, and reminds readers of the proleptic potential of
postcolonial theorists and authors – Paul Gilroy, Austin Clarke,
Mohsin Hamid, Ali Smith, to name a few – in identifying the
residual ideologies of imperialism in the lead up to and after the
Brexit campaign. The articles featured here extend Brexit’s
figurative geography towards India, Britain, Pakistan, Ireland,
Palestine, Barbados, and Eastern Europe, amongst others. They
engage with films, media representations, and public discourses
alongside more traditional genres such as the novel and stage
productions. With a diversified approach to scholarly fields such
as postcolonial literary and cultural studies, the book offers new
insights into Brexit’s diverse histories not only in academic
discourses, but also in the socio-political public sphere at large.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the
field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of
literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11
literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the
transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak
border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book
captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the
discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These
include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical
power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and
regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist
incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and
technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental
constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw
upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories
within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and
transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from
the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary
responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to
postcolonial theory's call for a historical foregrounding of
terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial
power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the European Journal of English Studies.
Drawing from a rich corpus of British cultural production and
postcolonial theory, this book positions Brexit in the historical
nexus of colonialism, colonial nostalgia, and the rise of
narcissistic nationalism in contemporary Europe. This collection
moves away from existing literary discourses framing Brexit as a
'novel' event that ushered in a new genre of British fiction. It
challenges the hackneyed public discourses that depict the results
of the 2016 Referendum as the catalyst of regional instability as
well as sociopolitical emergency in Europe. This book traces and
critiques populist myth-making in the current United Kingdom
through engagement with a wide range of literary and cultural
productions, and reminds readers of the proleptic potential of
postcolonial theorists and authors - Paul Gilroy, Austin Clarke,
Mohsin Hamid, Ali Smith, to name a few - in identifying the
residual ideologies of imperialism in the lead up to and after the
Brexit campaign. The articles featured here extend Brexit's
figurative geography towards India, Britain, Pakistan, Ireland,
Palestine, Barbados, and Eastern Europe, amongst others. They
engage with films, media representations, and public discourses
alongside more traditional genres such as the novel and stage
productions. With a diversified approach to scholarly fields such
as postcolonial literary and cultural studies, the book offers new
insights into Brexit's diverse histories not only in academic
discourses, but also in the socio-political public sphere at large.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing.
This volume explores new perspectives on contemporary forms of
violence in South Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and case
studies, it examines the infiltration of violence at the societal
level and affords a comparative regional analysis of its
historical, cultural and geopolitical origins in South Asia.
Featuring essays from Sri Lanka to Nepal, and from Afghanistan to
Burma, it sheds light on issues as wide-ranging as lynching and mob
justice, hate speech, caste violence, gender-based violence and the
plight of the Rohingyas, among others. Lucid and engaging, this
book will be an invaluable source of reference as well as
scholarship to students and researchers of postcolonial studies,
anthropology, sociology, cultural geography, minority studies,
politics and gender studies.
This volume explores new perspectives on contemporary forms of
violence in South Asia. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and case
studies, it examines the infiltration of violence at the societal
level and affords a comparative regional analysis of its
historical, cultural and geopolitical origins in South Asia.
Featuring essays from Sri Lanka to Nepal, and from Afghanistan to
Burma, it sheds light on issues as wide-ranging as lynching and mob
justice, hate speech, caste violence, gender-based violence and the
plight of the Rohingyas, among others. Lucid and engaging, this
book will be an invaluable source of reference as well as
scholarship to students and researchers of postcolonial studies,
anthropology, sociology, cultural geography, minority studies,
politics and gender studies.
Challenging the predominantly Euro-American approaches to the
field, this volume brings together essays on a wide array of
literary, filmic and journalistic responses to the decade-long wars
in Afghanistan and Iraq. Shifting the focus from so-called 9/11
literature to narratives of the war on terror, and from the
transatlantic world to Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, the Afghan-Pak
border region, South Waziristan, Al-Andalus and Kenya, the book
captures the multiple transnational reverberations of the
discourses on terrorism, counter-terrorism and insurgency. These
include, but are not restricted to, the realignment of geopolitical
power relations; the formation of new terrorist networks (ISIS) and
regional alliances (Iraq/Syria); the growing number of terrorist
incidents in the West; the changing discourses on security and
technologies of warfare; and the leveraging of fundamental
constitutional principles. The essays featured in this volume draw
upon, and critically engage with, the conceptual trajectories
within American literary debates, postcolonial discourse and
transatlantic literary criticism. Collectively, they move away from
the trauma-centrism and residual US-centrism of early literary
responses to 9/11 and the criticism thereon, while responding to
postcolonial theory's call for a historical foregrounding of
terrorism, insurgency and armed violence in the colonial-imperial
power nexus. This book was originally published as a special issue
of the European Journal of English Studies.
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