The language question in India and Africa / Debjani Ganguly and Bhekizizwe Peterson -- English and the development of postcolonial literature / Gabriella Mazzon -- Religion and postcolonial writing / Jamie S. Scott -- Postcolonial responses to the Western canon / Ankhi Mukherjee -- Island writing, Creole cultures / Elizabeth Deloughrey -- Magical realism / Mariano Siskind -- Palimpsest and hybridity in postcolonial writing / Lene M. Johannessen -- The narrative forms of postcolonial fiction / Monika Fludernik -- Poetry and postcolonialism / Jahan Ramazani -- Primitivism and postcolonial literature / Victor Li -- Popular culture and postcolonial literary production in Africa and India / Stephanie Newell and Abhijit Gupta -- Film and postcolonial writing / Lindiwe Dovey -- Fanon, Memmi, Glissant and postcolonial writing / Anjali Prabhu -- Negritude and postcolonial literature / H. Adlai Murdoch -- Publishing, prizes and postcolonial literary production / Sandra Ponzanesi -- Key journals and organizations / Ira Raja and Deepika Bahri
Summary
A mix of geographic and thematic chapters allows for different viewpoints on postcolonial literary history. Chapters cover the most important national traditions, as well as more comparative geographical and thematic frameworks