The Future of Postcolonial Studies

Chantal Zabus is Professor of Postcolonial Literatures and Gender Studies at the University Paris 13 Sorbonne-Paris-Cité, France. She is the author of Out in Africa (2013); Between Rites and Rights (2007); The African Palimpsest　(2007); and Tempests after Shakespeare (2002). She is the Editor-in-Chief of Postcolonial Text.

Introduction: The Future of Postcolonial Studies Chantal Zabus Part I: Comparing 1. Postcolonial Studies in French-speaking Areas: France, Francophonie, and the World Jean-Marc Moura 2. ‘We’ve Done Our Bit, Too!’: Crossover Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Reception of Postcolonial Writing in Italy Silvia Albertazzi 3. Future Linguistic Approaches to African Literature Vicki Briault-Manus Part II: Converting 4. Conversion, Identity and Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial Space: The Writings of Tiyo Soga 1829-1871 Gareth Griffiths 5. Island Hinduism: Religion and Modernity in Francophone Indian Ocean Literature Srilata Ravi 6. Fundamentalism and Postcoloniality: Beyond ‘Westoxification’? Klaus Stierstorfer Part III: Greening 7. Greening in Contemporary Arabic Literature: The Transformation of Mythic Motifs in Postcolonial Discourse Ferial J. Ghazoul 8. Notes on the Postcolonial Arctic Graham Huggan 9. Animals, Environment and Post-Colonial Futures Helen Tiffin Part IV: Queering 10. Postcolonially Queer: Sexual Dissidence as Cultural Struggle in Emergent Democracies in Africa William J. Spurlin 11. Writing Queer in South Africa: Poetry versus Identity – A Creative Response Joan Hambidge 12. The Queer Writes Back: Australia David Coad Part V: Utopia 13. The Transgendered Nation: Intersexions between the Transnation and the Transsexual Subject Chantal Zabus 14. Imperial Diversity: War, Post-humanism, and the Futures of Postcolonial Studies Mike Hill 15. Future Thinking: Postcolonial Utopianism Bill Ashcroft