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.
Mediating across Difference
Mediating across Difference is based on a fundamental premise: to deal adequately with conflict – and particularly conflict stemming from cultural and other differences – requires genuine openness to different cultural practices and dialogue between different ways of knowing and being. Equally e...
Out of Bounds
Out of Bounds focuses on the crucial role that conceptions of iconic colonial Indian spaces—jungles, cantonments, cities, hill stations, bazaars, clubs—played in the literary and social production of British India. Author Alan Johnson illuminates the geographical, rhetorical, and ideological...
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...