Abstract

Introduction Saskia Schabio and Walter Goebel Part I: Framing Postcolonial Aesthetics 1. Post-Colonial Utopianism: The Utility of Hope Bill Ashcroft 2. Shifting Genre, Relocating the Aesthetic: Caribbean Inflections of Utopian Thinking Saskia Schabio 3. Writing the Poetry of Troy: Mahmoud Darwish and the Lyrical Epic as Postcolonial Resistance Genre Patrick Williams Part II: Resistant and Intercultural Genres 4. Genre: Fidelity and Transgression in the Post-Colonial African Novel Mpalive Hangson Msiska 5. De-Formed Narrators: Postcolonial Genre and Peripheral Modernity in Mabanckou and Pepetela Sharae Deckard 6. V.S. Naipaul's Truncated Autobiographical Fictions Walter Goebel Part III: Longue Duree Perspectives and Orature 7. Folk Tales in(to) Postcolonial Narratives and Aesthetics Ferial Ghazoul 8. A House, a Museum, and a Legend: Bait al-Kretliya Nadia El Kholy 9. ... What Will Count as the World: Indian Short Story Cycles and the Question of Genre Dirk Wiemann Part IV: Emerging Narrative Genres 10. Saying Sorry: The Politics of Apology and Reconciliation in Recent Australian Fiction Sue Kossew 11. Remapping Territories of Fiction in Ahdaf Soueif's The Map of Love Noha Hamdy 12. Reading Short Story as a Postcolonialist: 'This Blessed House' of Post-colonial Criticism Renate Brosch 13. Postcolonialism and Nostalgia in Michael Ondaatje's Divisadero Georgiana Banita

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