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This Book Reclaims Postcolonial Theory, Addressing Persistent Limitations In The Geographical, Disciplinary, And Methodological Assumptions Of Its Dominant Formations, And Emerging From An Investment In The Future Of Postcolonial Studies And A Commitment To Its Basic Premise; Namely The Conception Of Particular Cultural And Literary Articulations In Relation To Larger Structures Of Colonial And Imperial Domination As A Way Of Putting The Theory Back In Postcolonial Theory. To A Certain Extent, Postcolonial Theory Is A Victim Of Its Own Success, In Part From The Institutionalization Of The Insights That It Has Enabled: Now That They No Longer Seem New, It Is Hard To Know What The Field's Work Should Be Beyond These General Commitments, Or What Its Practitioners Should Be Debating. The Renewal Of Popular Anti-imperial Energies Across The Globe Provides A Rare Opportunity To Reassert The Political And Theoretical Value Of The Postcolonial As A Comparative, Interdisciplinary, And Oppositional Paradigm. This Collection Makes A Claim For What Postcolonial Theory Can Say Through The Work Of Scholars Articulating What It Still Cannot Or Will Not Say. It Explores Ideas That A More Aesthetically Sophisticated Postcolonial Theory Might Be Able To Address, Focusing On Questions Of Visibility, Performance, And Literariness. Contributors Highlight Some Of The Shortcomings Of Current Postcolonial Theory In Relation To Contemporary Political Developments Such As Zimbabwean Land Reform, Postcommunism, And The Economic Rise Of East Asia. Finally, They Address The Disciplinary, Geographical, And Methodological Exclusions From Postcolonial Studies Through A Detailed Focus On New Disciplinary Directions (management Studies, Theories Of The State), Overlooked Places And Perspectives (palestine, Weimar Germany, The Environmentalism Of The Poor), And The Necessity Of Materialist Analysis For Understanding Both World And World Literary Systems-- Machine Generated Contents Note: Pt. I Disciplinary Constellations: New Forms Of Knowledge -- 1. Capitalizing On English Literature: Disciplinarity, Academic Labor And Postcolonial Studies / Claire Westall -- 2. Dangerous Relations? Lessons From The Interface Of Postcolonialism And International Relations / Simon Obendorf -- 3. Managing Postcolonialism / Pasi Ahonen -- 4. Postcolonial Modernism: Shame And National Form / John C. Hawley -- Pt. Ii Case Studies: Geocultures, Topographies, Occlusions -- 5. Gaps, Silences And Absences: Palestine And Postcolonial Studies / Patrick Williams -- 6. Facing/defacing Robert Mugabe: Land Reclamation, Race And The End Of Colonial Accountability / Ashleigh Harris -- 7. Staging The Mulata: Performing Cuba / Alison Fraunhar -- 8. Amongst The Cannibals: Articulating Masculinity In Postcolonial Weimar Germany / Eva Bischoff -- 9. Postcolonial Postcommunism? / Cristina Sandru -- Pt. Iii Horizons: Environment, Materialism, World -- 10. Neoliberalism, Genre And The Tragedy Of The Commons / Rob Nixon -- 11. Reading Fanon Reading Nature / Jennifer Wenzel -- 12. Towards A Postcolonial Disaster Studies / Anthony Carrigan -- 13. Postcolonial Nature? Or, If Oil Could Speak, What Would It Say? / Crystal Bartolovich -- 14. Inherit The World: World-literature, Rising Asia And The World-ecology / Sharae Deckard. Edited By Anna Bernard, Ziad Elmarsafy, And Stuart Murray. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.