...Ryan Topper Abstract This essay intervenes in debates surrounding trauma theory and postcolonial studies, tracing how forms of African animism can lead to a decolonized discourse of trauma. Taking the postcolonial critique of trauma theory’s Eurocentrism as a point of departure, the essay focuses...

... classroom. W hile the focus of her in q u iry is situated in the N orth Am erican aca­ deme, her interests encompass globalization, world literary, cosm opolitan, and postcolonial studies as w ell as the circu its they traverse. Her w o rk also draws from her experiences of teaching secondary English...

... Miyashiro has explained the relationship between medieval studies and mass shootings both in “Mythmaking the ‘Anglo-Saxon’” and in “Our Deeper Past.” 13 Said, Orientalism ; Cohen, Postcolonial Middle Ages ; Cohen, “Introduction” ; Ganim, Medievalism and Orientalism ; Warren “How...

... of displaced workers helplessly seekingjobs and sus­ te n a n c e . 26 Arif Dirlik, too, in his recent full-length study of the same field, finds it p ertin en t to discuss what he calls that offshoot of post-modernism that has acquired pro m in en t visibility in recent years the so-called postcolonial...

... Ages . New York : St. Martin’s , 2000 . Cooppan Vilashini . “ W(h)ither Post-colonial Studies? Towards the Transnational Study of Race and Nation .” In Postcolonial Theory and Criticism , edited by Chrisman Laura and Parry Benita , 1 – 35 . Cambridge : Brewer , 2000...

...? That’s very important. Did it leave a country or two countries? And what did it do to all of those little kingdoms and peoples who did not want to assimilate in this big entity? And that’s where we come across what I see as the hegemony of postcolonial studies. There’s this school of thought...

... Ouzgane. CrossingBorderlands: Composition and Postcolonial Studies. Pittsburgh: U o f Pittsburgh P, 2004. Pp. 288. pb. $22.95. 0-8229-5837-6. McLeod, Wilson. Divided Gaels: Gaelic Cultural Identities in Scotland and Ireland c. 1200-1650. Oxford: O xford UP, 2004. Pp. xiv + 288. he. $95.00. 0-19-924722- 6...

... Difference from Paul to Shakespeare (2004) and Medieval Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2010). Her research explores questions of anti-Semitism and representations of the outsider in literatures in English, French, and German. Her current research project focuses on the figure of the Wandering Jew...

... studies to reexamine and rearticulate the very nature of the archive, including its founding epistemologies and logics of inclusion. 29 As Elizabeth Povinelli suggests, any project of this type starts out from the calls from postcolonial studies scholars such as Laura Ann Stoler and Michel Rolph...

... working in cultural studies, gender/queer studies, literary studies, and global South/postcolonial studies. The aim of this review is to set the stage for understanding exactly how the contents of this special issue furthers the critical and creative interventions made possible by the maritime turn...

... and response, both in term s of its public readership and its more scholarly Interpretations; yet w hile m any critics have ana­ lyzed My Brother through pointedly postcolonial lenses, very few have fu lly developed a sophisticated queer cultural studies reading o f the work.9 Nevertheless, Jennifer Rahim...

... by Françoise Lionnet and Shu-m ei Shih in th e ir w ork on "m in o r tra n sn a tio n a lism ."11 Here, interestingly, m in o r transnationalism em erges as a triple critique of postcolonial studies, globalization, and w hat we m ight have historically and unproblem atically called the nation, all three o f...

... for decades, from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century studies to genre studies to postcolonial studies. 1 Absent from prodigious scholarship about the seas is discussion of modernism between the wars, even from otherwise comparative, comprehensive analyses that span the early modern period through today. 2...

... signals an affinity with postcolonialism while declaring an intention to shift the intellectual center of gravity away from a purely land-focused one. Just as the term postcolonial aims to understand a world shaped by European empires and their aftermaths, so hydrocolonialism signals a commitment...

... tive ly aim s to interrogate literary studies itself for the spatial assum ptions that have structured its theories, m eth­ odologies, and d iscip lin a ry fo rm a tio n s. Its o rigin al critica l re m it m ig h t thus be defined as "the cartographic unconscious o f literary studies," and its...

...Bobby Benedicto RETHINKING POSTCOLONIAL (H o m o )S exu ality: Paul V ir il io , G lobal S pace, and F ilipin o G a yn ess B o b b y b e n e d ic t o T he contemporary political and theoretical concern w ith difference has produced a substantial array o f material on the unique practices and modes...

...Monica Chiu S equencing and C o n tin g en t I n d iv id u a lis m in t h e G r a p h i c , P o stco lo n ial Spaces of S a t r a p i s P er sepo lis a n d O k u b o s C i t i z e n 13660 M o n ic a C h iu N arratives of postcolonialism revolve around metaphors of space. Imperialism in its sim...

... Aftermath, which takes its start in the Renaissance w orld and empha­ sizes transnational approaches, including postcolonial studies; American Literature and Culture, which emphasizes hemispheric approaches, ethnic and regional studies, and com ­ m unication technologies; Global Routes, which teaches texts...

... and contention, personal journeys and intellectual itineraries that bypass the rigidities of the empire and the postcolonial nation. Gulam M oham m ed Sheikh is a Gujarati painter, critic, and poet, w ho was born in 1937 in w hat was then the town o f W adhwan Camp, now Surendranagar. Sheikh left Surendranagar...

.... For a study o f queer globalization, see A rnaldo Cruz-Malave, Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the A fterlife o f Colonialism (NY: New York UP, 2002). On the intersections o f postcolonial and queer theory, see, fo r example: John C. Hawley, ed. Postcolonial and Queer Theories: Intersections and Essays...