Asher Ghaffar (editor) - History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature

History, Imperialism, Critique

This book examines anti-imperialist thought in European philosophy. It features an international group of both emerging and established scholars who directly respond to Timothy Brennans far-reaching call to rethink intellectual histories, literary histories, and the reading habits of postcolonialism, in relation to the anti-imperialist tradition of critique. Each contributor rethinks postcolonial and world literature, Continental thought, and intellectual history in relation to anti-imperialist histories and traditions of critique, through geographically diverse analysis.

This book provides a forum for the next generation of scholars to draw on and engage with the marginal yet influential work of the first generation of dissidents within postcolonial studies. It will appeal to researchers and students in the fields of postcolonial studies, world literature, geography, and Continental thought.

Asher Ghaffar is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University, Canada. His research monograph, Muslims in World Literature: Political Philosophy and Continental Thought , is forthcoming with Routledge in 2019. His most recent essay on Zulfikar Ghose and Hanif Kureishi will appear in The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing , edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. He is also working on a second poetry collection.

Routledge Research in New Postcolonialisms

Series Editor: Mark Jackson, Senior Lecturer in Postcolonial Geographies, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, UK.

This series provides a forum for innovative, critical research into the changing contexts, emerging potentials, and contemporary challenges ongoing within postcolonial studies. Postcolonial studies across the social sciences and humanities are in a period of transition and innovation. From environmental and ecological politics, to the development of new theoretical and methodological frameworks in posthumanisms, ontology, and relational ethics, to decolonizing efforts against expanding imperialisms, enclosures, and global violences against people and place, postcolonial studies are never more relevant and, at the same time, challenged. This series draws into focus emerging transdisciplinary conversations that engage key debates about how new postcolonial landscapes and new empirical and conceptual terrains are changing the legacies, scope, and responsibilities of decolonising critique.

Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty
Alternative food networks in the subaltern world
Edited by Marisa Wilson

Coloniality, Ontology, and the Question of the Posthuman
Edited by Mark Jackson

Unsettling Eurocentrism in the Westernized University
Edited by Julie Cupples and Ramn Grosfoguel

History, Imperialism, Critique
New Essays in World Literature
Edited by Asher Ghaffar

For more information about this series, please visit: www.routledge.com/Routledge-Research-in-New-Postcolonialisms/book-series/RRNP .

History, Imperialism, Critique

New Essays in World Literature

Edited by Asher Ghaffar

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Himani Bannerji was born in Bangladesh in 1942 when it was still part of India. She was educated (BA, MA) and taught in Calcutta prior to immigrating to Canada in 1969. Her thesis (PhD, University of Toronto, 1988) is entitled: The Politics of Representation: A Study of Class and Class Struggle in the Political Theatre of West Bengal . Bannerji is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at York University in Toronto. She is perhaps best known for her non-fiction writing in areas such as feminism, racism, and multiculturalism.

Eric Brandom is a James Carey Research Fellow in the History Department at Kansas State University.

Timothy Brennan is the Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota, and the author of foundational essays in postcolonial theory. His essays on intellectuals, imperial culture, and the politics of popular music have appeared in numerous publications, including The Nation , the Times Literary Supplement , New Left Review , Critical Inquiry , and the London Review of Books . He most recently authored the first of a two-volume study, Borrowed Light: Vico, Hegel, and the Colonies , with the second volume forthcoming. He is currently finishing an intellectual biography of Edward W. Said.

Sreya Chatterjee is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Houston. She specializes in twentieth-century British, Irish, South Asian, and postcolonial literature and feminist and materialist theories. Her current book project, tentatively titled Narratives of Fracture , studies coreperiphery relationships in the postcolonial and globalization eras in twentieth-century domestic fiction. She has published essays and reviews in venues including Comparative Literature Studies and Studies on Asia . Most recently her essay on writer/activist Mahasweta Devi appeared in an edited volume Naxalism: Post-structuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives (Setu, 2017).

Daniel Dooghan is Associate Professor of World Literature at the University of Tampa, where he teaches courses on modern Chinese literature, postcolonial studies, and globalization. His recent publications include articles on neoliberalism in video games and Chinas challenges to a singular world literature. He is currently completing a book manuscript on the literary configurations of a Chinese world-system.

Christian Gerzso is Visiting Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Pacific Lutheran University. His work has appeared in Textual Practice and The Battersea Review .

Asher Ghaffar is a PhD candidate in Social and Political Thought at York University. His research monograph, Muslims in World Literature: Political Philosophy and Continental Thought , is forthcoming with Routledge in 2019. His most recent essay on Zulfikar Ghose and Hanif Kureishi will appear in The Routledge Anthology to Pakistani Anglophone Writing: Origins, Contestations, New Horizons , edited by Aroosa Kanwal and Saiyma Aslam. He is also working on a second poetry collection.