Book series: Writing Past Colonialism
Writing Past Colonialism is the signature book series of the Institute of Postcolonial Studies, based in Melbourne, Australia. By postcolonialism we understand modes of writing and artistic production that critically engage with and contest the legacy and continuing mindset and practices of colonialism, and inform debate about the processes of globalization. This perspective manifests itself in a concern with difference from the Euro-American, the global, and the norm. The series is also committed to publishing works that seek to make a difference, both within the academy and outside it.
Imperial Archipelago: Representations and Rule in the United States Insular Territories after 1898
This is a study of the relationship between textual and photographic representations and the different patterns of rule established by the United States over Cuba, Guam, Hawai’i, the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of the Spanish-American war of 1898. The author teaches at the...
Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes
During the nineteenth century, Singapore was established as a free port of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian...
Dark Writing
We do not see empty figures and outlines; we do not move in straight lines. Everywhere we are surrounded by dapple; the geometry of our embodied lives is curviform, meandering, bi-pedal. Our personal worlds are timed, inter-positional, and contingent. But nowhere in the language of cartography...