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THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD The Postcolonial World presents an overview of the field and extends critical debate in exciting new directions. It provides an important and timely reappraisal of postcolo- nialism as an aesthetic, political, and historical movement, and of postcolonial studies as a multidisciplinary, transcultural field. Essays map the terrain of the postcolonial as a global phenomenon at the intersection of several disciplinary inquiries. Framed by an introductory chapter and a concluding essay, the eight sections examine: • Affective, Postcolonial Histories • Postcolonial Desires • Religious Imaginings • Postcolonial Geographies and Spatial Practices • Human Rights and Postcolonial Conflicts • Postcolonial Cultures and Digital Humanities • Ecocritical Inquiries in Postcolonial Studies • Postcolonialism versus Neoliberalism The Postcolonial World looks afresh at re-emerging conditions of postcoloniality in the twenty-first century and draws on a wide range of representational strategies, cultural practices, material forms, and affective affiliations. The volume is an essential reading for scholars and students of postcolonialism. Jyotsna G. Singh is Professor in the Department of English at Michigan State Univer- sity, USA. David D. Kim is Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. THE ROUTLEDGE WORLDS THE CELTIC WORLD THE OTTOMAN WORLD Edited by Miranda Green Edited by Christine Woodhead THE GREEK WORLD THE VICTORIAN WORLD Edited by Anton Powell Edited by Martin Hewitt THE REFORMATION WORLD THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORLD Edited by Andrew Pettegree Edited by Augustine Casiday THE SUMERIAN WORLD THE EARLY CHRISTIAN WORLD Edited by Harriet Crawford Edited by Philip F. Esler THE ETRUSCAN WORLD THE ROMAN WORLD Edited by Jean MacIntosh Turfa Edited by John Wacher THE GOTHIC WORLD THE MEDIEVAL WORLD Edited by Glennis Byron and Dale Edited by Peter Linehan and Janet L. Nelson Townshend THE BIBLICAL WORLD THE WORLD OF THE REVOLUTIONARY Edited by John Barton AMERICAN REPUBLIC Edited by Andrew Shankman THE HINDU WORLD Edited by Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby THE WORLD OF INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICA THE ENLIGHTENMENT WORLD Edited by Robert Warrior Edited by Martin Fitzpatrick THE FIN-DE-SIÈCLE WORLD THE WORLD OF POMPEII Edited by Michael Saler Edited by Pedar W. Foss and John J. Dobbins THE OCCULT WORLD THE BABYLONIAN WORLD Edited by Christopher Partridge Edited by Gwendolyn Leick THE MODERNIST WORLD THE RENAISSANCE WORLD Stephen Ross and Allana Lindgren Edited by John Jeffries Martin THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD THE EGYPTIAN WORLD Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim Edited by Toby Wilkinson Forthcoming: THE ISLAMIC WORLD Edited by Andrew Rippin THE ATLANTIC WORLD Edited by D’Maris Coffman, Adrian THE VIKING WORLD Leonard, William O’Reilly Edited by Stefan Brink and Neil Price THE BUDDHIST WORLD THE BYZANTINE WORLD John Powers Edited by Paul Stephenson THE CRUSADER WORLD THE ELIZABETHAN WORLD Adrian Boas Edited by Susan Doran and Norman Jones THE WORLD OF FORMATIVE EUROPE THE WORLD OF THE AMERICAN WEST Edited by Martin Carver and Madeleine Edited by Gordon Morris Bakken Hummler T H E P O S T C O L O N I A L WO R L D Edited by Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Jyotsna G. Singh and David D. Kim The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book has been requested ISBN: 9781138778078 (hbk) ISBN: 9781315297699 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC CONTENTS List of figures ix Acknowledgements xi Notes on contributors xii Introduction 1 Jyotsna G. Singh PART I: AFFECTIVE, POSTCOLONIAL HISTORIES 33 1 On postcolonial happiness 35 Ananya Jahanara Kabir 2 On not closing the loop: Empathy, ethics, and transcultural witnessing 53 Stef Craps 3 Affective histories and Partition narratives in postcolonial South Asia: Qurratulain Hyder’s Sita Betrayed 68 Rituparna Mitra 4 The unsettled space of identity formation in Samir Naqqash’s Shlomo al-Kurdi, Myself and Time (2004) 86 Amel A. Mahmoud PART II: POSTCOLONIAL DESIRES 95 5 Queers in-between: Globalizing sexualities, local resistances 97 Abdulhamit Arvas v — Contents — 6 Morality and desire: The role of the “Westernized” woman in post-independence Pakistani cinema 117 Sadaf Ahmad 7 Queer camouflage as survival, presence, and expressive capital in the postcolonial artwork of Kiam Marcelo Junio 134 Jan Christian Bernabe 8 Fictive identities on a diasporic ethnic stage: A “modern girl” consumed in Dominican beauty pageants 150 Danny Méndez PART III: RELIGIOUS IMAGININGS 167 9 “Postcolonial remains”: Critical religion, postcolonial theory, and deconstructing the secular–religious binary 169 Timothy Fitzgerald 10 Gods in a democracy: State of nature, postcolonial politics, and Bengali Mangalkabyas 184 Milinda Banerjee 11 Imagining the “Muslim” woman: Religious movements and constructions of gender in the sub-continent 206 Meryem Zaman PART IV: P OSTCOLONIAL GEOGRAPHIES AND SPATIAL PRACTICES 225 12 Representing postcolonial Zanzibar in contested literary, cultural, and political geographies 227 Garth Myers 13 Transcolonial cartographies: Kateb Yacine and Mohamed Rouabhi stage Palestine in France-Algeria 243 Olivia C. Harrison 14 Virtual encounters in postcolonial spaces: Nollywood movies about mobile telephony 260 Carmela Garritano 15 Curio fever: Tsubouchi Shōyō, Lafcadio Hearn, and the cultural politics of “collecting Japan” in the Age of Empire 274 Jonathan Zwicker vi — Contents — PART V: HUMAN RIGHTS AND POSTCOLONIAL CONFLICTS 289 16 Inhospitality, European style: The failures of human rights 291 Ali Behdad 17 “Always on top”? The “Responsibility to Protect” and the persistence of colonialism 308 Jessica Whyte 18 Drug detention and human rights in post-doi moi Vietnam 325 Claire Edington PART VI: POSTCOLONIAL CULTURES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES 343 19 Breaking and building: The case of postcolonial digital humanities 345 Roopika Risam 20 Subaltern archives, digital historiographies 363 Angel David Nieves and Siobhan Senier 21 If Fanon had had Facebook: Postcolonial knowledge, rhizomes, and the gnosis of the digital 379 Adeline Koh PART VII: E COCRITICAL INQUIRIES IN POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES 393 22 “Ill fares the land”: Ecology, capitalism, and literature in (post-) Celtic Tiger Ireland 395 Eóin Flannery 23 Toxic bodies and alien agencies: Ecocritical perspectives on ecological others 412 Serpil Oppermann 24 Rethinking postcolonial resistance in Niger-Delta literature: An ecocritical reading of Okpewho’s Tides and Ojaide’s The Activist 425 Cajetan N. Iheka 25 Relating to and through land: An ecology of relations in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka 439 Kirk B. Sides vii — Contents — PART VIII: POSTCOLONIALISM VERSUS NEOLIBERALISM 459 26 Unlocking history: Postcolonial ethics and the critique of neoliberalism 461 Filippo Menozzi 27 The journey of the West African migrant: Francophone cinematic representations in Frontières, Bamako, and La Pirogue 476 Kenneth W. Harrow 28 Boutique ethnicity: On African Ancestry and neoliberal economies of the self 494 David Bering-Porter 29 Neoliberal colonialism? A postcolonial reading of “land grabbing” in Africa 509 Kate Manzo and Rory Padfield Conclusion: What is the postcolonial world? Assembling, networking, traveling 526 David D. Kim Index 549 viii FIGURES I.1 Installation and Text: Reena Saini Kallat, Untitled (Map/Drawing) 2011. 1 1.1 Rio de Janeiro, Sambódromo, 2nd March 2014. 45 6.1 Rani in the film Tehzeeb. 129 7.1 Screenshot of Jerry Blossom performing in Art Must Be Beautiful (Study), After Abramović (1975). Produced by Kiam Marcelo Junio, 2012. 138 7.2 Mimesis I (2012), metallic ink silkscreen on Chinese silk brocade, 18 × 24 in. (left); Mimesis II (2012), mirrored acrylic (in various skin tones), 18 × 24 in. (right). 138 10.1 Kalketu the Hunter (1938) by Abanindranath Tagore. 188 10.2 Wives of Tiger, Lion, Deer and Elephant Complaining to Durga (1938) by Abanindranath Tagore. 189 11.1 Journey Through the Qur’an. 213 12.1 The shamba lands of the hills north and east of Zanzibar town in the neighborhood of Mtufaani (By the Apple Tree). 232 14.1 Blackberry Babes (2011). 268 14.2 Blackberry Babes (2011). 270 15.1 Kawakami Otojirō as Shylock and Kawakami Sadayakko as Portia, Merchant of Venice, 1903. 276 15.2 Matsui Sumako as Nora, A Doll’s House, 1911. 277 20.1 From The Virtual Freedom Trail Project. 368 21.1 From print knowledge to digital knowledge. 381 27.1 Human cargo from La Pirogue. 479 27.2 The great baobab tree from La Pirogue. 489 29.1 Timar, France. Earthworks competition cartoon. 512 29.2 Palm oil concession and leases in Africa to foreign investors as categorized by region of investor, 2000–2014. 514 ix
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