CONTENTS
Contents Acknowledgements
Janet Wilson, Cristina Şandru and Sarah Lawson Welsh General Introduction
Section 1: Theoretical Re-routings: Cosmopolitanism, Transnationality, and the Neo-Liberal Subject
Janet Wilson Introduction to ‘Theoretical Re-routings’ Simon Gikandi Between Roots and Routes: Cosmopolitanism and the Claims of Locality
Robert Spencer Cosmopolitan Criticism
Kaori Nagai ‘The New Bilingualism’: Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Esperanto
Victor Li Globalization’s Robinsonade: Cast Away and Neo-Liberal Subject Formation
Bill Ashcroft Transnation
Patrick Williams ‘Outlines of a Better World’: Re-routing Postcolonialism
Section 2: Re-mapping the Postcolonial: Globalism, Localism and Diasporas
Cristina Şandru Introduction to ‘Re-mapping the Postcolonial’
Diana Brydon Cracking Imaginaries: Studying the Global from Canadian Space
Anna Ball 'Here Is Where I Am’: Re-Rooting Diasporic Experience in Leila Aboulela’s Recent Novels
Erin Goheen Glanville Re-Texturing Diaspora Theory with Canadian Refugee Fiction
Jeffrey Mather Ma Jian’s Red Dust: Global China and the Travelling-Self
Dorota Kołodziejczyk Cosmopolitan Provincialism in a Comparative Perspective
Section 3: Literary Re-routings: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Postcolonial Canon
Sarah Lawson Welsh Introduction to ‘Literary Re-routings’
Elleke Boehmer A Postcolonial Aesthetic: Repeating Upon the Present
Jane Poyner Rerouting Commitment in the Post-Apartheid Canon: TRC Narratives and the Problem of Truth
James Graham From Exceptionalism to Social Ecology in Southern Africa: Isolation, Intimacy and Environment in Nadine Gordimer’s Get a Life (2005)
Deborah Madsen Un-American Exceptionalism in the Disciplinary Field: from Unmeltable Ethnics to
Flexible Citizens
Nirmala Menon Re-Routing the Postcolonial Canon through Linguistic Re-Mapping: Why Re-Map?
Nadia Louar At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Discourses: Rerouting the Queer with
Jean Sénac and Jean Genet
Notes on Contributors
Index