Postcolonial Theory & Crisis: Contemporary Interventions

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgement V
3. Contents VII
4. Postcolonial Theory & Crisis: Contemporary Interventions 1
5. Section 1: New Approaches to Postcolonial Studies and Crisis
6. Post-Humanitarianism and the Crisis of Empathy 21
7. Coming of Age Across the Central Mediterranean Route: E.C. Osondu’s When the Sky is Ready the Stars Will Appear 47
8. Crisis and the Postcolonial State: Human Rights and Contemporary Emergency 67
9. The Postcolonial Anthropocene 83
10. Section 2: Postcolonial Studies and Ecological Crisis
11. “None of that shit matters to the Swedes”: Venice, Bangladesh, and the Postcolonial Anthropocene 105
12. Violent Postcolonial Ecosystems. Environmental Crisis and Eco-Critique in João Paulo Borges Coelho’s Literary Writing 123
13. Fuel Scavengers: Climate Colonialism in the South African Science Fiction of Alex Latimer’s Space Race, Henrietta Rose-Innes’ Poison, and Neill Blomkamp’s District 9 141
14. Section 3: Postcolonial Studies and Critical Theory
15. Crisis and Postimperial Remains: Belonging, Loss, Justice 159
16. (Dis)inheriting Stevenson: Inheritance Crisis, Postcolonial Periodization, and Literary Property in the Pacific 173
17. Critique without Guarantees: Thinking with Stuart Hall in a Time of Crises 189
18. Section 4: Crisis Across Art, Memory, and Race
19. Traumatic Memory and the Postcolonial: Disruptive Genealogy 209
20. Postcolonial Critique in Practice: A Case Study of Citizen Media Resistance to Mainstream Media Discourses on Race 225
21. “Crisis” and Planetary Entanglements: Ai Weiwei’s Pequi Tree and John Akomfrah’s Vertigo Sea 239
22. List of Contributors 259
23. List of Figures 263
24. Index 265