Jenni Ramone's collected volume is timely and brings together essays that redress the most recent accusations
leveled against the field... An excellent and stimulating resource for students, as well as for new and seasoned scholars in the humanities and social sciences. * Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature * In her valuable study of local literary marketplaces in former colonies, Jenni Ramone considers the ways in which local texts present reading ... Features excellent essays on gendered communal violence in India. * Modern Language Review * A valuable and innovative intervention in the field of contemporary postcolonial literary studies ... Through its engagement with a range of pressing postcolonial issues, this advanced introduction, which includes a useful glossary of key critical terms, evidences the ongoing relevance, in today's world, of the postcolonial and its "narratives of resistance" (7) to (neo)colonialism; it will, accordingly, give food for thought to researchers and students, as well as to anyone interested in postcolonial studies and their multifarious subfields of scholarship. * Literary Research * Those wishing to familiarise themselves with the new research emerging within postcolonial studies would do well to begin here. This volume showcases the exciting and innovative work being pursued by younger and more established scholars who are extending and reshaping the provenance of the 'postcolonial' in response to the new challenges and developments that have profoundly transformed the geo-political frames of enquiry since the field was first established. Tackling issues such as neoliberal globalisation, migration and refugee crises, uneven development, exclusionary and racialized state governmentalities, faith and secularism, eco-crisis, the formation of the global literary marketplace and the tension between postcolonial studies and world literature, as well as addressing hitherto relatively under-examined aspects of postcolonial literary and cultural studies, this volume is a welcome reminder that prognoses of the obsolescence of postcolonial studies have been greatly exaggerated: on this evidence, the field is in rude health. * Anshuman A. Mondal, Professor of Modern Literature, University of East Anglia, UK * This is an exciting and valuable new contribution to contemporary postcolonial studies, offering a comprehensive overview of consolidated and emerging fields of scholarship, and covering a broad array of genres, geographical locations and authors. It will serve as a vital introduction to the field for students, but also offers a rich panoply of new material for established scholars of postcolonial studies, ranging from new readings of well-known colonial and postcolonial texts, to focused studies of current and emerging areas such as the digital humanities; neoliberalism; world literature and the graphic novel. Comprising 20 chapters and including a helpful glossary, this is essential reading for students and academics alike. * Michelle Keown, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh, UK *