...Simon Hay This essay asks what it means to call Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions (1988) a postcolonial bildungsroman. It argues that there is a fundamental contradiction in the term between the pressures and practices of bildung (education; development; formation), on the one hand...

... as a Postcolonial Experience , New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . © 2016 by University of Oklahoma 2016 Works Cited Bowman Paul . 2013 . Reading Rey Chow: Visuality, Postcoloniality, Ethnicity, Sexuality . New York : Peter Lang . Becker A. L. 1995 . Beyond...

...: Hypertext Pedagogy and Poetics . Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press , 1995 . Koolish Lynda . “ Fictive Strategies and Cinematic Representations in Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Postcolonial Theory/Postcolonial Text .” African American Review 29.3 ( 1995 ): 421 - 438 . Landow...

...Steven Salaita Clark Steve , ed. Travel Writing and Empire: Postcolonial Theory in Transit . New York : Zed , 1999 . 264 pp. © COPYRIGHT 1999 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 1999 Ideology and Inscription: "Cultural Studies" after Benjamin, de Man, and Bakhtin by Tom Cohen...

...Steven Salaita Afzal-Khan Fawzia and Seshadri-Crooks Kalpana , eds. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . 412 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS ATTITUDES...

...Steven Salaita Majid Anouar . Unveiling Traditions: Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World . Durham : Duke UP , 2000 . 304 pp. © COPYRIGHT 2002 BY THE UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA 2002 REVIEWS ATTITUDES TOWARD HISTORY Leon...

... work Guerrillas as marking a shift toward what it terms postcolonial naturalism as a way of both distancing the author’s aesthetic from the realism of a depleted romantic nationalism and anticipating, through its own codification of affect, an as yet unnamable globalization. Copyright © 2017...

.... The conflict between the search for knowledge and the inadequacies of narrative would appear to doom the encyclopedism of Rahman’s characters and readers alike, but the novel complicates this conclusion. Rather than refuting or embracing the pursuit of knowledge, In the Light fosters a uniquely postcolonial...

...Siddharth Srikanth Abstract Recent scholarship on the bildungsroman highlights the ideological implications of bildung in relation to empire and human rights discourse. This essay adds to that scholarship by reading the postcolonial bildungsroman as an expression of the erosion of national...

...Arnab Dutta Roy Abstract The twentieth century is witness to a revival of interest in the bildungsroman as writers, especially from postcolonies in the Global South, turn to it to reflect on concerns of history, culture, and social life in a postcolonial setting. Scholars, however, disagree...

... travel writing drawn from postcolonial contexts: Caroline Alexander's One Dry Season (1990), Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild (1996), and Bruce Chatwin's In Patagonia (1977). Highly intertextual and characterized by deep immersion in the discursive and personal space of the subject, footsteps travel writing...

...James Arnett; Angela Wright This essay takes a close look at the way Alain Mabanckou positions himself vis-à-vis discipline and market by way of his negotiations of a range of terms—French, francophone, postcolonial, and world literature—and the ways that such disciplinarity and appeal might...

.... Bloomington and Indi- anapolis: Indiana University Press, 1993: 123-147. Afzal-Khan, Fawzia and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, eds. The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies. Durham: Duke UP, 2000. 412 pp. Postcolonial studies is one of the more remarkable areas to emerge in acad- eme...

... of Textual Spaces . Trans. Vollroth Robert A. . Amherst, NY : Humanity Books , 1984 . Moylan Tom . “ Utopia, the Postcolonial, and the Postmodern .” Science Fiction Studies 29 ( 2002 ): Neuwirth Robert . Shadow Cities . New York : Routledge , 2005 . Pordzik Ralph...

... . `` Endings and new beginning: South African fiction in transition .'' Writing South Africa: Literature, apartheid and democracy, 1970-1995 . Cambridge : Eds Attridge Jolly . Cambridge UP , 1998 , 43 - 56 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought...

... Cultural Philosophy .'' Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader . Ed. Eze Emmanuel Chukwudi . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Blackwell , 1997 . 197 - 220 . Bhabha Homi K. The Location of Culture . London : Routledge , 1994 . Chinweizu Onwuchekwa Jemie Madubuike...

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... or is forthcoming in American Literary History, ASAP/Journal, Post45, Dissent , and the Los Angeles Review of Books , among other publications. © 2017 by University of Oklahoma 2017 Jhumpa Lahiri microfinance Kiva neoliberalism postcolonialism Works Cited Ahmed Sadiq Varshney...

... . Aravamudan Srinivas . 2013 . “The Catachronism of Climate Change.” Diacritics 41 , no. 3 : 6 – 30 . Baucom Ian . 2012 . “The Human Shore: Postcolonial Studies in an Age of Natural Science.” History of the Present 2 , no. 1 : 1 – 23 . ———. 2014 . “History 4°: Postcolonial...

..., for the field of Caribbean women’s writing. Beka Lamb is only one example of a large number of bildungsromane written by Caribbean women writers and indeed by many writers in postcolo- nial countries.1 This proliferation of postcolonial bildungsromane appears at first glance surprising, given the genre’s...